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ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF CON- 
NECTICUT RELATING TO THE TOWN 
OF MANCHESTER. 


1823-1915, inclusive. 


Resolve Incorporating the Town of Manchester— 
Passed May, 1823. 


RESOLVED BY THIS ASSEMBLY, That the parish 
of Orford, in the town of East Hartford, with all the inhabi- 
tants residing within the limits of the parish of Orford, be, 
and the same is hereby, incorporated into a distinct and 
separate town by the name of “Manchester,” and the in- 
habitants aforesaid, and their successors forever, residing 
within said limits, shall have and enjoy all the powers, 
privileges, and immunities enjoyed by other towns in this 
state, with the right of sending one representative to the 
general assembly of this state. 

And said new town shall pay its just proportion of all 
debts now due from or existing against said town of East 
Hartford counting upon the list of 1822, and shall be entitled 
to their just proportion of any town property; and in future 
said new town shall support all the poor of said town whose 
ordinary residence has been in said parish of Orford, 
whether said persons now reside in the town of East Hart- 
ford or not, provided, at the time they left said town they 
resided within said parish of Orford, and in case the two 
towns do not agree as to dividing the property of said town, 
or the division of the poor, or as to the amount of debts, the 
county court for the county of Hartford are hereby author- 
ized and empowered to make such division or appointment, 
giving reasonable notice to the parties concerned. 

The collectors of the town of East Hartford are hereby 
authorized to collect all taxes already laid, in the same man- 
ner as if this bill had not been passed. 

The first town meeting in said new town shall be holden 
at the meeting house in the parish of Orford on the sixteenth 
day of June next, at 9 o’clock in the forenoon, and George 


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Cheney, Esq., shall be moderator thereof, who shall warn 
said tneeting by posting a warning on the public sign-post 
in said new town and such other place or places as he may 
think proper, at least six days before said first meeting. 
And all subsequent meetings shall be holden at or near said 
meeting-house in Orford; and the officers of said town 
chosen at said first meeting shall hold their offices until 
others are legally chosen and sworn in their stead. 


Resolution Validating the Assessment List in Manchester. 


Upon the petition of Edward Griswold and Normand 
Buckland of Manchester, in Hartford County, showing to 
this assembly that they are selectmen of the town of Man- 
chester aforesaid; that at the annual town meeting holden 
in said town on the first Monday in October, 1841, George 
W. Cheney, Esq., was duly chosen assessor of said town for 
the year next following; that said Cheney accepted said 
office and took the oath by law provided for assessors; that 
before said Cheney had completed the assessment list and 
_ abstract required by law to be made out and lodged with 
the town clerk by the first day of December, he was taken 
sick, and died on or about the 30th of November; that as 
soon as they discovered that the assessment list and abstract 
required by law were not made out and lodged with the 
town clerk according to the requirements of the statutes, 
they warned a special town meeting, which was holden on 
the 15th day of December, 1841, when William Jones, Esq,, 
was duly chosen assessor, who accepted said office and took 
the oath by law provided for assessors, but did not give 
notice to persons by law liable to pay taxes to bring in 
written or printed lists, and did not three-fold any for not 
bringing in such lists, but ascertained the taxable property 
and polls of the inhabitants of said town, and set said prop- 
erty in the lists at its simple value; that he made out a 
correct list of the polls and ratable estate of the inhabitants 
of said town, whose list was with the abstract required by 
law, as soon as practicable lodged in the office of the town 
clerk of said town; that the Board of Relief of said town, 
having first given ten days’ notice of the time and place of 
meeting, met on the first Monday of January, 1841, heard 
and determined all appeals to them made from the doings of 
said assessor and equalized and adjusted the valuations and 
assessment list of said town; that the inhabitants of said 
town have voted certain taxes to be made out on the assess- | 


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ment list so made, and that they cannot with safety to thenr 
selves make out the rate bills on said assessment as they 
are by law required to do; that the state tax for said town 
cannot be legally collected while they are liable to have 
execution issued against them and have their property sold 
for the payment of said tax; and that said town has no 
means of defraying the expenses of said town or of repairing 
the highways therein, without the taxes so voted as afore- 
said and praying that said’ assessment list so made out by 
said Jones be declared good, and valid in law, and all legal 
taxes levied thereon legal and collectable in the same 
manner as though said assessment list and abstract had been 
made out by said Cheney in all respects according to law, 
and lodged with the town clerk of said town, or in his 
office, by the first day of December, 1840, as per petition on 
file dated May 20, A. D. 1841. 

RESOLVED BY THIS ASSEMBLY, That the assess- 
ment list of said town so made out by said Jones, be, and 
the same hereby is declared good and valid in law, and all 


.taxes which have been or hereafter may be laid or imposed 


thereon, shall be deemed good and collectable, notwith- 
standing any or all causes and defects named and set forth 
in said petition. (Private Acts and Resolutions 1837-1846- 
1841, Page 52.) 


Changing the Name of the Ecclesiastical Society of Orford. 


RESOLVED, That the Ecclesiastical Society of Orford 
in the Town of Manchester, County of Hartford, shall here- 
after be known and called by the name of the Congrega- 
tional Society of Manchester. (Private Acts 1843: Page 21.) 


Enabling the Town of Manchester to Assume Indebtedness 
Incurred in Furnishing Its Quota Under the Call of 
the United States Government for Troops. 


Whereas certain residents of the Town of Manchester 
have advanced money to enable the said town to fill its 
Quota under call of the United States Government for 
troops, therefore RESOLVED by this Assembly that if said 
town at a legally called meeting shall vote to assume said 
indebtedness, such debts shall become legal and binding 
upon said town. 


Approved July 9th, 1864. eG 


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Remitting to the Town of Manchester a Portion of the Last 
State Tax. 


RESOLVED BY THIS ASSEMBLY, That the sum of 
$73 and 51/100 dollars be remitted and allowed to the Town 
of Manchester from the last state tax levied upon said town. 

Approved July 20th, 1867. 


Act Relating to the Election of Justices of the Peace. 


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 
tives in General Assembly convened: 

Section 1: That Jasper R. Fitch, James Campbell, Fran- 
cis W. Cowles, Aaron Cook, Chas. S. Cheney, Albert Taylor, 
Chas. Giles, M. Hills, Olin R. Wood, Chas. H. Owen, Rufus 
R. Dimock, Mason Agard, Nathaniel Keeney and James T. 
Bunce, be and are hereby declared to be duly elected Justices 
of the Peace for the Town of Manchester at an election held 
in said town on the first Monday in April, A. D. 1876, for 
the ensuing term for which they were declared to be elected. ~ 

Section: 

Section73: 

Section 4: This act shall take effect from and after its 
passage. 


Approved June 28th, 1876. 


Annexing a Portion of East Windsor to the Town of 
Manchester—Passed 1842. 


RESOLVED, That all that part of the Town of East 
Windsor which lies south and west of a line, beginning at 
the southeast corner of East Windsor, on the line of Man- 
chester and Vernon, and running north on the Vernon town 
line three-fourths of a mile, thence running westwardly by 
a straight line to the northwest corner of the Town of Man- 
chester, with all the inhabitants residing therein, be and 
hereby is annexed to the town of Manchester, and shall 
hereafter constitute a part of the Town of Manchester. 
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That this resolve shall not be 
construed to vary the limits of any school society now exist- 
ing ; and provided, also, that the poor of said Town of East 
Windsor, who were born within the territory hereby an-_ 
nexed to said Town of Manchester, and who have not 
gained a settlement elsewhere in this state than in said 


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Town of East Windsor, or who have gained a settlement 
in said Town of East Windsor by residence or otherwise, 
within said territory, shall be deemed inhabitants of said 
Town of Manchester, whether said poor are now maintained 
by the Town of East Windsor or not; and such poor of East 
Windsor as are now absent therefrom, shall belong to said 
Town of Manchester; provided such persons, at the time of 
their departure, belonged to that part of East Windsor 
hereby annexed to Manchester. 


Chapter VII of Probate Districts. 

Sec. 88: The districts of the several courts of probate 
shall be as follows, to wit :— 

The Towns of Hartford, Windsor, Wethersfield, East 
Hartford, Glastonbury, Manchester, Bloomfield and Rocky 
Hill shall be one district, by the name of Hartford. 

(In addition, 1850.) 

That the Town of Manchester be, and the same hereby 
is, constituted a probate district, by the name of the District 
of Manchester; provided, that all matters and business 
begun or entered in the District of Hartford, shall be com- 
pleted therein, in the same manner as if this act had not 
been passed. (Statutes of Connecticut Compilation of 


1854,—Page 287. 


Annexing Harlow Fowler and Harlow M. Fowler to the 
Northwest School District of Manchester. 


REOOUVED: BY THIS ASSEMBLY, “That. Harlow 
Fowler and Harlow M. Fowler of Manchester, with their 
dwelling houses and all lands belonging to them or either of 
them, and lying in said Manchester, are hereby annexed and 
declared to belong, for all school purposes, to the Northwest 
School District of said Manchester, and that the said Harlow 
Fowler and Harlow M. Fowler, and those who may succeed 
them in the occupation of said houses and lands shall, as 
members of said Northwest School District, be entitled to 
all the privileges and subject to the liabilities of the inhabi- 
tants of the same. 

Approved May 28, 1858. 


Annexing a Part of the Southeast School District of East 
Hartford to the West School District of Manchester, and 
Establishing the Boundary Line Between Said Districts. 

Upon the petition of the Town of Manchester, praying 
for a restoration of territory, and establishment of bounda- 
ries of a school district: 


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RESOLVED BY THIS ASSEMBLY, That the follow- 
ing be and hereby is established as the dividing line between 
the school districts of said Town of Manchester, and 
the school districts of the Town of East Hartford, viz: 
beginning at the southeast corner of the Southeast School 
District of East Hartford, at the boundary between said 
Manchester and the Town of Glastonbury; thence running 
northerly along the eastern boundary of said school district, 
as established by the general assembly of 1857, to a ditch 
on the south side of the Sally Holmes’ lot, so called; thence 
westerly along said ditch, to the boundary between said 
Manchester and said East Hartford; thence north along said 
boundary to the Town of South Windsor; and that so much 
of said Southeast School District as lies north of that part 
of the dividing line hereby made and established, which 
runs westerly along said ditch, south of said Sally Holmes’ 
lot, be and the same is hereby annexed to and made a part 
of the West School District of said Manchester. 

This act shall take effect from the day of its passage. 

PROVIDED, That that portion of said school district, 
so set off to the Town of Manchester, shall remain liable to 
pay their proportion of the present indebtedness of said dis- 
trict, and may be taxed therefore in the same manner as 
though this resolution had not passed. 

Approved June 9, 1858. 


(Senate Joint Resolution No. 46) 
(232) 
Creating a School District in the Towns of Manchester and 
East Hartford. 


RESOLVED BY, THIS ASSEMBLY: That -all thas 
portion of the Towns of Manchester and East Hartford, and 
the inhabitants thereof, bounded and described as follows, 
viz.: Starting from a spring and public watering through 
on the middle turnpike between Hartford and Providence, 
and about one-half mile west of the Hartford Manilla Com- 
pany’s mill, thence running southerly about four rods to the 
Hockanum river; thence following said river and the Hart- 
ford Manilla Companys pond easterly and northerly to the 
south boundary line of the seventh school district in said 
Manchester; thence running westerly on said school district 
line to the town line between said towns of Manchester and 
Fast Hartford; thence northerly along said town line to.the 


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South Windsor town line; thence following the line of the 
joint school district known as Long Hill school district, 
lying partly in the town of South Windsor and partly in the 
town of East Hartford, northerly, westerly, and southerly 
to the point in the Town of East Hartford where said joint 
district line intersects the Tolland turnpike, so-called, near 
the house of Thomas McLelland; thence easterly along said 
turnpike to the point of intersection of said turnpike with 
the Long Hill road, so-called; thence southerly to the place 
of beginning. 
Approved, April 14, 1886. 


(Substitute for House Joint Resolution No. 133) 
(109) 


Validating Action of the Town of Manchester in Exempting 
the Mather Electric Company from Local Taxation. 

RESOLVED BY THIS ASSEMBLY, That the action 
of the Town of Manchester in abating all town, highway 
and school district taxes of The Mather Electric Company, 
for five years from November first, 1886, and exempting said 
company from town, highway and school district taxation 
on condition that it locate its manufactory and carry on its 
business in said town, is hereby validated and confirmed, 
and said company is hereby exempted from all town, high- 
way and school district taxation in said town for five years 
from November first, 1886. 

Approved March 22, 1887. 


(House Joint Resolution No. 418) 
(307 J 
Concerning the Ninth School District of Manchester. 


ie SO) vere) eh ¥ 9 T ET Sees SECM IoYen ss Sectiony. 1: 
That the territory and inhabitants within the limits of the 
ninth school district of Manchester are hereby made a body 
politic and corporate by the name of the Ninth School Dis- 
trict of Manchester, and shall have all the powers and 
privileges of school districts under the laws of this state. 

Sec. 2. The first meeting of said district shall be held 
in June, 1895, and shall be called by the present district 
committee. At said meeting shall be elected by ballot a 
committee consisting of five persons whose terms of office 
shall begin July fifteenth, 1895. One of this number shall 
be elected to hold office until the next annual meeting, two 


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until the second annual meeting, and the remaining two 
until the third annual meeting thereafter. At each annual 
meeting of the said district, which shall be held in June, 
so many members of said committee shall be elected by 
ballot to hold office for three years as, together with those 
previously elected to hold office beyond said annual meet- 
ing, will make the whole number five; and all members of 
said committee shall be residents of said district. In case of 
vacancy caused by resignation, death, or removal from the 
district, the remaining members of the committee shall fill. 
the vacancy until the next annual meeting of said district, 
when a member shall be elected for the unexpired term. 

Sec. 3. Said committee shall examine, employ, and dis- 
miss teachers, shall determine the number and qualifica- 
tions of the scholars to be admitted into each school, pro- 
vided that all children of school age within said district shall 
be admitted to some one of the schools maintained by said 
district, may prescribe the course of study to be followed 
in the schools, and shall exercise all the powers and perform 
all the duties of district committees and school visitors. 
The authority of the school visitors of the town in which 
said district is situated shall extend only to the remaining 
portion of said town. 

Sec. 4. In the Town of Manchester, in each year, before 
the third Tuesday of June, the school visitors shall elect 
three of their own number, and the committee chosen under 
the provisions of this resolution shall also elect three of 
their own number, and these six persons together with the 
selectmen of said town shall be the joint board of the Town 
of Manchester in lieu of that provided for in section 2234 
of the general statutes, and shall have the rights and perform 
the duties of said joint board prescribed in sections 2234, 
2236, and 2237 of the general statutes. 

Approved, June 11, 1895. 


(House Joint Resolution No. 142) 
(59) 
Authorizing the Town of Manchester to Reimburse James 
M. Burke. 


RESOLVED BY THIS: ASSEMBLY, That the Towe 
of Manchester be and it is hereby authorized and empowered 
to appropriate a sum not exceeding three hundred and 
twenty-five dollars, to be paid to James M. Burke of said 
Manchester, as a reimbursement for money paid by him in 


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November, 1895, to the county commissioners, of Hartford 
County. and by them paid over to the said Town of Man- 
chester for a liquor license, subsequently revoked by the 
said commissioners on the ground that they had no power 


to issue it. 
Approved, March 10, 1897. 


(Substitute for House Joint Resolution No. 293) 
(177 
Amending the Charter of the Ninth School District of 
Manchester. 


RESOLVED BY THIS ASSEMBLY, That section two 
of the charter of the Ninth School District of Manchester, 
approved June 11, 1895, is hereby amended by adding 
thereto the following: The chairman of the district commit- 
tee shall give due notice of all meetings of said district, and 
may call a special meeting thereof at any time, and shall 
call one on the written request of twenty legal voters of the 
district. 

Approved, March 31, 1897. 


(Substitute for House Bill No, 1125) 
(405) 


An Act Extending the Limits of the Ninth School District 
of Manchester. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 
tives in General Assembly convened: 

Section 1: Section one of a resolution incorporating the 
ninth school district of Manchester, approved June 11, 1895, 
is hereby amended by adding thereto the following: The 
limits of said ninth school district of Manchester are hereby 
enlarged by taking from the sixth school district and adding 
to said ninth school district the following described piece of 
land: Commencing at a point in Olcott street east of land of 
Emil L, G. Hohenthal, said point being seven hundred and 
fifty and three-fourths feet easterly of the east line of the 
Charles Case property, thence running westerly along said 
Olcott street about two hundred and seventy-two feet to a 
point where the prolongation southerly of the westerly line 
of said Hohenthal’s property intersects said Olcott street, 
thence northerly along said westerly line of said Hohen- 
thal’s land about six hundred and fifty feet to the northwest 
corner thereof, thence easterly along the northerly line of 


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said Hohenthal about four hundred and five feet to a point 
where the present line of said ninth school district intersects 
said northerly line of said Hohenthal, thence southerly along 
said present district line to the point of beginning. 

Sec. 2. This act shall become effective upon the failure 
of the voters of said district to approve section one of an act 
of the general assembly of 1913, entitled an act amending 
the charter of the ninth school district of Manchester. 

Approved, June 4, 1913. 


(Substitute for Senate Bill No. 114) 
(380) 
An Act Amending the Charter of the Ninth School District 
of Manchester. 


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 
tives in General Assembly convened: 

Section 1. Section one of a resolution incorporating the 
ninth school district of Manchester, approved June 11, 1895, 
is hereby amended to read as follows: The territory and in- 
habitants within the limits of the ninth school district of 
Manchester bounded by a line commencing at a point in 
the center line of middle turnpike opposite the dividing line 
between the lands of R. O. Cheney and E. C. Hillard, thence 
running southerly to a point where said line interesects the 
north line of the land of E. L. G! Hohenthal, thence west on 
said north line about four hundred and five feet to the 
northwest corner of said land, thence south on the west line | 
of said Hohenthal’s land about six hundred and fifty feet to 
the intersection with the center line of Olcott! street, thence 
westerly on the center line of Olcott street to the east line 
of the land of the Charles Case property at a point five hun- 
dred and twenty-six feet easterly of the center line of 
McKee street, thence south on the east line of said Case 
property to the center line of Center street, thence west on 
the center line of Center street to the center line of McKee 
street, thence south on the center line of McKee street to 
Hartford road, thence south on the line of the old highway 
now discontinued to the dividing line between land formerly 
of Edna McKee and land of Cheney Brothers, thence east- 
erly in a straight line to the south end of the bridge south 
of the house of the late George Gould on South Main street, 
thence south along the center of the highway to the dividing 
line between land formerly of Richard Joslyn and land for- 


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merly of Abel Lewis, thence easterly in a straight line to a 
. point where the west line of the third district crosses Wyllis 
brook on Gardner street, thence north on Gardner street in 
a straight line to Highland street, thence east about fifty-two 
feet to the center line of Autumn street, thence north on the 
center line of Autumn street to the dividing line between 
land of Gy WwW? Cowles ‘and land of Ha: .G. and/.R. Cheney, 
thence west on said line to the west line of the old cemetery, 
thence north on said line to the center of East Center street, 
thence easterly on the center line of East Center street to 
the east line of the property of Martha Durkins and Mary 
Digny, thence north on said line to Middle turnpike, thence 
westerly along Middle turnpike to the point of beginning; 
are hereby made a body politic and corporate by the name of 
the ninth school district of Manchester, and shall have all 
the powers and privileges of school districts under the laws 
of this state. 

Sec. 2. Said district may establish public day and even- 
ing schools for instruction in the principles and practice of 
such trades and useful occupations as may be designated by 
the committee of said district. Said committee shall have 
the power to purchase such materials as may be necessary 
for the proper conduct of said schools and may dispose of 
the products of said schools and of the income from such 
products either for prizes to the pupils for proficiency in 
work or for maintenance of said schools. 

Sec. 3. Said district may equip and maintain gymna- 
siums, baths, and recreation grounds, with all necessary 
buildings and paraphernalia, for the use of the inhabitants 
of the Town of Manchester as the recreation committee may 
designate, and is authorized to raise money by taxation for 
the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act. Said 
district shall have all the rights and powers for the acquire- 
ment of land for any of the provisions of this act which it 
has for the acquirement of land for school purposes. 

Sec. 4. Said recreation grounds, gymnasiums, and baths 
shall be under the supervision of a committee of five resi- 
dents of said district who shall be known as the recreation 
committee of the ninth school district. Two of said com- 
mittee shall be.appointed annually by the district committee 
from its members. At the annual meeting of said district in 
1913 said district shall elect ome member of said committee 
to hold office for one year from July 15, 1913, one member 
to hold office for two years from said date, and one member 


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to hold office for three years from said date. At each annual 
meeting thereafter said district shall elect one member of 
said committee who shall hold office for three years from 
July fifteenth succeeding his election. In case of a vacancy 
among the elected members of said recreation committee 
the remaining members of said committee shall elect some 
person to fill the vacancy until the next annual meeting. 
In case of a vacancy among the members appointed by the 
school committee said school committee shall appoint some 
person for the balance of the unexpired term. The recrea- 
tion committee shall have charge of the baths, recreation 
grounds, and gymnasiums maintained by the district, and 
shall make rules and regulations for their management, use, 
and rental, and may employ such attendants and assistants 
as may be necessary to properly supervise and maintain 
them. 

Sec. 5. Whenever said district shall vote to purchase 
land for any of the purposes of said district, or to purchase, 
erect, or equip any building for any of said purposes, or to 
enlarge any such building, and the estimated expense 
thereof is more than ten thousand dollars, and an appropria- 
tion is made for the purpose of meeting such expense, said 
district may, at a meeting duly warned for that purpose, 
vote to issue bonds of said district to defray such expenses, 
provided said district shall not issue bonds exceeding in the 
aggregate of all issues five per centum of the grand list of 
said district. Said meeting shall fix the rate of interest on 
said bonds, the time and place of payment of principal and 
interest thereon, the amount and kind of bonds, the manner 
in which they shall be issued and sold, and the person or 
persons by whom the same shall be signed on behalf of 
said district. A certain part of said bonds shall become due 
each year. Said district shall make provision for a sinking 
fund for the payment of said bonds. The proceeds of the 
sale of such bonds shall be paid into the district treasury 
and no portion of the money so raised shall be used for any 
purpose other than that for which said bonds were issued. 
Any balance remaining after completing such payment shall 
be used only for the purchase of land or the purchase or con- 
struction of buildings or their enlargement or equipment. 

Sec. 6. This act shall not take effect until it has been 
approved by the voters of said district at a meeting duly 
warned and held for that purpose. Said vote shall be taken 
by ballot and check list upon each section hereof. Each 


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person in favor of the adoption of any section of this act 
shall deposit a ballot with the words written or printed: 
"Section. Yes, and every person opposed shall deposit a 
ballot with the words written or printed: Section No. 
Those sections approved by a majority vote of the district 
as aforesaid shall take effect immediately. 


Approved June 5, 1913. 


(Substitute for House Bill No. 191) 
(98) 
An Act Amending a Resolution Concerning the Ninth 
School District of Manchester. 


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 
tives in General Assembly convened: 

Section 1. Section two of a resolution concerning the 
ninth school district of Manchester, approved June 11, 1895, 
is hereby amended to read as follows: The first meeting of 
said district shall be held in June, 1895, and shall be called 
by the present district committee. At said meeting shall be 
elected by ballot a committee consisting of five persons 
whose term of office shall begin July fifteenth, 1895. One 
of this number shall be elected to hold office until the next 
annual meeting, two until the second annual meeting, and 
the remaining two until the third annual meeting thereafter. 
At each annual meeting of said district, which shall be held 
in June, So many members of said committee shall be elected 
by ballot to hold office for three years as, together with those 
previously elected to hold office beyond said annual meeting, 
will make the whole number five; and all members of said 
committee shall be residents of said district. In case of 
vacancy caused by resignation, death, or removal from the 
district, the remaining members of the committee shall fill 
the vacancy until the next annual meeting of said district, 
when a member shall be elected for the unexpired term. 
The district committe, or a majority thereof, shall give 
notice of all meetings of said district, and may call a special 
meeting thereof at any time, and shall call one on the written 
request of twenty legal voters of the district. 

Sec. 2. A resolution amending the charter of the ninth 
school district of Manchester, approved March 31, 1897, is 
hereby repealed. 

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. 

Approved, March 30, 1915. 


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(House Bill No. 644) 
(340) 
An Act Establishing the Town Court of Manchester. 


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
in General Assembly convened : 

Section 1. There is hereby established in the Town of Man- 
chester a court to be styled and called the town court of Man- 
chester, which shall have jurisdiction of all crimes and mis- 
demeanors and nuisances committed within said town, and of 
all breaches and violations of the by-laws and regulations of said 
town, punishable by fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty 
dollars, or by imprisonment in a common jail or workhouse 
for a term not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and 
imprisonment; also for the recovery of all fines, penalties, and 
forfeitures for the violation of any of the laws of this state, or 
of the by-laws or regulations of the town of Manchester, wherein 
the fine, penalty, or forfeiture does not exceed in amount the 
sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, or imprisonment in a com- 
mon jail or workhouse for a term not exceeding six months, or 
both; and said court shall have power to proceed to trial, render 
judgment, and grant warrant of execution to carry into effect, 
and to enforce any order or judgment of said court; provided, 
however, that the accused in all cases may appeal to the next 
superior court for Hartford county having criminal jurisdiction, 
and upon such appeal he shall give a recognizance, with surety, 
to the state, conditioned that he shall appeal before said superior 
court to answer to the complaint, and abide the order and judg- 
ment of said court theeron, and, on his failure to enter into said 
recognizance, said court shall order him to be committed to the 
jail in said county till the next term of said superior court, there 
to answer to said complaint and abide the order and judgment of . 
said superior court thereon. | 

Sec. 2. Said court shall be held to be a police court, and said 
court and the judge thereof shall have all the powers by law 
conferred upon police courts and the judges thereof. 

Sec. 3. Said court shall also have and exercise, within said 
town all the authority and powers which justices of the peace have 
and exercise in all matters of a criminal form and nature and 
actions in rem, and may proceed therein in such manner as such 
justices of the peace may do; and no grand juror or prosecuting 
agent shall make complaint either to said court or to a justice 
of the peace of any criminal matter arising within the Town of 
Manchester, nor shall any justice of the peace take cognizance 


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of any action or complaint or action in rem arising within the 
Town of Manchester. 


Sec. 4. There shall be a judge and deputy judge of said 
court, to be appointed by the general assembly, and they shall take 
the oath provided for judicial officers, and shall hold their re- 
spective offices for two years, commencing on the first Monday 
of July next following their appointment, and until others are 
appointed and qualified in their stead. The deputy judge shall, 
in case of a vacancy in the office of the judge, or in his absence, 
disqualification, or inability, or at his request, act as the judge 
of said court, and shall, while so acting, have all the powers of 
said judge. 

Sec. 5. Said court shall be legally constituted for the exer- 
cise of any of the powers or jurisdiction conferred by this act, 
whenever the judge or deputy judge thereof shall be present; 
and said court shall proceed in all cases without a jury; may 
issue subpoenas and warrants of capias for witnesses, warrants 
of arrest upon complaints made to it of crimes, and all other 
criminal process, and administer justice in all criminal matters 
whereof this act gives jurisdiction according to law; and may 
hold the accused for trial in the superior court for Hartford | 
county, in cases beyond the jurisdiction of said town court, or 
in cases where, in the opinion of said court, the offense charged 
against the accused is of so aggravated a character as to require 
a greater punishment than said town court can impose; said 
court may adjourn any case to a future time, and require recog- 
nizance for the appearance of the accused, or, in default thereof, 
may commit him to jail to await the time of trial; when the 
court may have final jurisdiction of the case, the recognizance 
shall be to the town of Manchester, and in all other cases, and 
upon appeals and binding over to the superior court, the recog- 
nizance shall be to the state. 

Sec. 6. The judge of said court shall annually appoint a 
prosecuting attorney and an assistant prosecuting attorney, to 
act in the absense or at the request of the prosecuting attorney, 
who shall have all the powers of the prosecuting attorney while 
acting in his stead, both of whom shall be sworn to a faithful 
discharge of their duties. Within the cognizance and jurisdic- 
tion of, and as may be provided and restricted by this act, said 
attorney shall exercise the same authority and perform the same 
duties as are now provided by law for state’s attorneys in their 
several counties; and said attorney shall further have the same 
powers and authority as are or may hereafter be conferred upon 
grand jurors or prosecuting agents by the general statutes. 


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Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorneys 
diligently to inquire after and make due presentment and com- 
plaint to said court of all crimes, misdemeanors, and other crimi- 
nal matters whereof said court has jurisdiction, or wherein said 
court may proceed, whether committed before or after his ap- 
pointment to office, but in case of urgent necessity, he may make 
such presentment or complaint to any justice of the peace for 
Hartford county residing in Manchester, or to the judge or 
deputy judge of said court, who may issue a warrant for the 
arrest of the accused person, commanding the proper officer or 
mdifferent person to ariest such accused person and bring him 
before said court, and the accused shall be by said court dealt 
with in the same manner as though said presentment or com- 
plaint had been made to said court and said warrant issued 
thereby. 

Sec. 8. Said attorney shall collect in the name of the Town 
of Manchester, and by suit, when necessary, all forfeited bonds 
payable to said town, and shall pay all sums received by him into 
the town treasury; and said attorney and assistant attorney may 
issue subpoenas for witnesses to appear before said court in 
criminal cases. ‘They shall each give bond to the Town of 
Manchester, with surety to the ac@eptance of the selectmen, in 
such amount as such selectmen shall fix, conditioned for the 
faithful discharge of their duty. 

Sec. 9. The judge or deputy judge of said court shall act 
as clerk theerof, and shall keep the records thereof, and certify 
the same and copies thereof, and said judge shall receive all 
fines and costs paid before commitment; and all fines and costs 
paid after commitment to the keeper of the jail, or other place 
where the offender is confined, shall be paid by such keeper to 
the judge. Said judge shall also draw from the superior court 
all sums taxed in it for costs in said town court, in cases coming 
before said superior court from said town court by appeal, bind- 
ing over, or otherwise, including all costs in cases before said 
town court when the accused shall be discharged for want of 
probable cause and the offense charged is beyond the jurisdiction 
of said court. All fines, costs, and other sums coming into his 
hands shall be paid by said judge into the town treasury for 
the use thereof; and said judge shall draw orders on the treasurer 
for all such costs and fees that may be taxed by said court in any 
criminal case and payable from the town treasury, and costs and 
fees shall be paid only to those persons in whose favor they may 
have been taxed, or on their written order. 

Sec. 10. No fees for attendance at court, keeping a prisoner, 
or for assistance in making an arrest, shall be taxed or allowed to 


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any officer serving criminal process, unless said court shall find 
that such attendance, keeping, or assistance was necessary, but 
said court may tax and allow legal fees, in its discretion, to any 
officer making arrests when the offender was apprehended in 
the act, or on the speedy information of others. No fee shall 
be allowed to any bystander as a witness before said court, nor 
shall any person be entitled to receive any costs, unless demand 
shall be made therefor within thirty days after the same shall 
become due. 

Sec. 11. The judge shall account to the treasurer of said 
town quarterly, under such regulations as the selectmen shall 
prescribe, for all moneys received by him under the provisions 
of this act, and shall pay said money at said time of accounting 
into the treasury of said town. He shall execute'a penal bond in 
the sum of one thousand dollars, with surety satisfactory to the 
selectmen, for the faithful discharge of his duties in the care, 
custody, and accounting for all moneys received by him under 
the provisions of this act. 

Sec. 12. The judge of said court shall receive a salary of 
five hundred dollars per annum, and the deputy judge a salary of 
fifty dollars per annum; but if the deputy judge shall be required 
to act in more than one-ninth of the cases before said court, his 
compensation shall be increased so as to be proportional to the 
number of cases tried, and such additional compensation shall be 
deducted from the compensation of the judge. The salary of the 
prosecuting attorney shall be six hundred dollars and the salary 
of the assistant prosecuting attorney shall be fifty dollars per 
annum ; but if the assistant prosecuting attorney shall be required 
to act in more than one-ninth of the cases before said court, his 
compensation shall be increased so as to be proportional to the 
number of cases prosecuted, and such additional compensation 
shall be deducted from the compensation of the prosecuting at- 
torney. The salaries and compensation provided in this section 
shall be in lieu of all fees whatever for the services of said officers 
arising from the business of said court, and shall be paid monthly 
from the treasury of said town upon the order of the judge of 
said court. , 

Sec. 13. The same costs shall be taxed in said courts as are 
taxed in similar cases before justices of the peace, except that 
two dollars for the trial of each case, and one dollar on each 
appeal shall be taxed ; and all copies in cases going to the superior 
court fro msaid town court by appeal, binding over, or otherwise, 
shall, with the addition last mentioned, be taxed the same as in 
similar cases going to the superior court from justices of the 
peace. All costs for services of process and witness fees, and 


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other costs taxable by law, and not for services within the duty 
of the judge, deputy judge, prosecuting attorney, or assistant 
prosecuting attorney, shall be paid out of the town treasury upon 
the order of the judge or deputy judge. 

Sec. 14. Said court may reduce or disallow fees taxable by 
said court in cases where the negligence of any ministerial officer, 
or the discharge of the accused for want of sufficient evidence, or 
the insufficiency of the service rendered, or other circumstances, 
shall render such reduction or disallowance just in the opinion 
of the court. 

Sec. 15. All process issued by said town court shall be 
signed by the judge or deputy judge; subpoenas to procure the 
attendance of witnesses before said court may be signed by the 
judge, deputy judge, prosecuting attorney, or assistant prosecut- 
ing attorney; bonds or recognizances on the continuance of any 
case, or on binding over or appeal to the superior court, shall be 
taken by the judge or deputy judge, and bonds for appearance 
at said court to answer may be taken by the judge, the deputy 
judge, the prosecuting attorney, or the assistant prosecuting at- 
torney, and the authority taking such bond for appearance shall 
note on the warrant the name of the surety, the amount of the 
bond, and the date and hour at which the accused is to appear 
before said court, which entry shall be a part of the file of said | 
case. Neither said judge nor deputy judge shall be disqualified 
to act in any case from which money by penalty or otherwise 
shall accrue to the town or borough of Manchester by reason of 
their being residents or taxpayers of said town or borough. 
| Sec. 16. When any person shall be arraigned before said 

court for drunkenness, vagrancy, disorderly conduct, or breach 
of the peace, said court may indefinitely suspend the execution 
of the sentence, whenever such suspension may seem to the court 
reasonable, either by reason of the age of the accused, or the 
circumstances of the case. 

Sec. 17. Sureties of the peace and good behavior may be 
required by said court in such cases and in such manner as jus- 
tices of the peace are now authorized by law to require the same; 
and said court may require sureties of the peace and good 
behavior, in addition to or in lieu of any penalty imposed by said 
court in cases brought by said prosecuting attorney, whenever 
a prayer therefor shall be inserted in said complaint, and the 
interests of justice require it. 

Sec. 18. Said town court shall have jurisdiction of bastardy 
‘suits and may proceed therein in the same manner and to the 
same extent that justices of the peace may do. 


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Sec. 19. Said town court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of 
all proceedings for search or seizure of spirituous or intoxicating 
liquors intended by the owner or keeper thereof to be sold or 
exchanged within said town of Manchester in violation of law, 
and may proceed thereon in the same manner and to the same 
extent that justices of the peace heretofore might do, except as 
hreinafter provided, subject to right of appeal to the court of 
common pleas for Hartford County. No fees shall be taxed for 
said court or prosecuting attorney on any complaint or warrant 
for search or seizure of spirituous or intoxicating liquors, but 
in case any seized liquors which have been claimed at trial shall] 
be adjudged a nuisance, a trial fee of two dollars, in addition to 
other taxable costs, shall be taxed against the defendant or de- 
fendants claiming said seized liquors. Also in addition thereto 


one dollar and cost of copies in case of appeal shall be taxed: 


against such defendant or defendants. No appeal copies shall 
be delivered to appellant or forwarded to said court of common 
pleas until paid for by appellant. Fees taxable by said town 
court in any proceeding for search or seizure of spirituous or 
intoxicating liquors may be reduced or disalowed when, in the 
opinion of said court, such reduction or disallowance is just or 
expedient. All costs for services or process and witness fees, 
and other costs in any proceedings for search or seizure of spirit- 
uous or intoxicating liquors taxable by said town court, and not 
for services within the duty of the judge, deputy judge; prosecut- 
ing attorney, or assistant prosecuting attorney, of said town 
court, not collectible from defendant or defendants in such pro- 
ceedings, shall be paid out of the treasury of said ‘Town of Man- 
chester upon the order of the judge or deputy judge of said 
town court. 


Sec. 20. The selectmen of said town shall provide a court 
room, and such other accommodations thereof as: the judge shall 
deem necessary, and also record books, blanks, stationery, and 
other necessary articles therefor. 


Sec. 21. The judge or deputy judge may, whenever he deems 
it necessary, appoint an officer to attend any session thereof for 
the purpose of preserving order, and the court may tax reasonable 
fees for said attendance in the case for which said appointment 
was made. 

Sec. 22. In case of a vacancy in the offices of judge and de- 
puty judge of said court, or in case of the absence or inability 
of both, the prosecuting attorney may cite in any justice of the 
peace for Hartford county, residing in said town, who, during 
the continuance of such vacancy, absence, or inability, may hold 


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said court, and exercise the same powers as the judge of said 
court; but complaints shall be made to him only by the prose- 
cuting attorney or assistant prosecuting attorney, and costs shall 
be taxed as is provided in this act. Said justice of the peace 
shall be paid by the town the fees provided by law for justices 
of the peace, and said pay shall be deducted from the compensa- 
tion of the judge. 

Sec. 23. Nothing contained in this act shall be taken to pre- 
vent the deputy judge or assistant prosecuting attorney of said 
court from appearing as counsel before it in the defense of cases 
whenever they are not needed for the performance of the duties 
of their offices. 

Sec. 24. This act shall take effect on the first Monday of 
July, 1895; but it shall be lawful for the general assembly to 
appoint the judge and deputy judge of said court at any time 
after the passage of this act. 

Approved, June 20, 1895. 


(Substitute for House Bill No. 676) 
(195) 
An Act Amending an Act Concerning the Town Court of 
Manchester. 


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
in General Assembly convened : 

Section 1. Section nine of an act establishing the town court 
of Manchester, approved June 20, 1895, is hereby amended to 
read as follows: The deputy judge of said court shall act as 
clerk thereof, and shall keep the records thereof, and certify 
the same and copies thereof, and said clerk shall receive all fines 
and costs paid before commitment; and all fines and costs paid 
after commitment to the keeper of the jail, or other place where 
the offender is confined, shall be paid by such keeper to the 
clerk. Said clerk shall also draw from the superior court all 
sums taxed by it for costs in said town court, in cases coming 
before said superior court from said town court by appeal, bind- 
ing over, or otherwise, including all costs in cases before said 
town court when the accused shall be discharged for want of 
probable cause and the offense charged is beyond the jurisdiction 
of said court. All fines, costs, and other sums coming into his 
hands shall be paid by said clerk into the town treasury for the 
use thereof; and said clerk shall draw orders on the treasurer for 
all such costs and fees that may be taxed by said court in any 
criminal case and payable from the town treasury, and costs and 


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fees shall be paid only to those persons in whose oan ee may 
have been taxed, or on their written order. 


Sec. 2. Section eleven of said act is hereby amended to read 
as follows: ‘The clerk shall account to the treasurer of said 
town quarterly, under such regulations as the selectmen shall pre- 
scribe, for all moneys received by him under the provisions of this 
act, and shall pay such money at the time of accounting into the. 
treasury of said town. He shall execute a penal bond in the sum 
of one thousand dollars, with surety satisfactory to the select- 
men, for the faithful discharge of his duties in the care of and 
accounting for all moneys received by him under the provisions 
of this act. 


Sec. 3. Section twelve of said act is hereby amended to read 
as follows: ‘The judge of said court shall receive a salary of six 
hundred dollars per annum, and the deputy judge a salary of 
three hundred dollars per annum; but if the deputy judge shall 
be required to act in more than one-sixth of the cases before said 
court, his compensation shall be increased so as to be proportional 
to the number of cases tried, and such additional compensation 
shall be deducted from the compensation of the judge. The 
salary of the prosecuting attorney shall be six hundred dollars 
per annum, and the salary of the assistant prosecuting attorney 
shall be one hundred dollars per annum; but if the assistant pros- 
ecuting attorney shall be required to act in more than one-sixth 
of the cases before said court, his compensation shall be increased 
so as to be proportional to the number of cases prosecuted, and 
such additional compensation shall be deducted from the 
compensation of the prosecuting attorney. The salaries and 
compensation provided for in this section shall be in lieu of 
fees for services of said officers arising from the business 
in said court, and shall be paid monthly from the treasury of 
said town upon the order of the clerk of said court. 


Sec. 4. Section thirteen of said act is hereby amended to 
read as follows: The same costs shall be taxed in said court 
as are taxed in similar cases before justices of the peace, except 
that two dollars for the trial of each case, and one dollar on each 
appeal shall be taxed; and all copies in cases going to the 
superior court from said town court by appeal, binding 
over, or otherwise shall, with the addition last mentioned, 
be taxed the same as in similar cases going to the superior 
court from justices of the peace. All costs for services of 
process and witness fees, and other costs taxable by law, 
and not for services within the duty of the judge, prose- 
cuting attorney, or assistant prosecuting attorney, shall be 


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paid out of the town treasury upon the order of the clerk. © 
Approved, April 29, 1915. 


(Substitute for House Bill No. 253) 
(321) 

An Act Concerning the Nomination of Candidates for Public 
Office, and the Number, Powers, and Duties of Town 
Officers in the Town of Manchester. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 
tives in General Assembly convened: 

Section 1. All candidates for town officers required by 
law to be elected by ballot, justices of the peace, and repre- 
sentatives in the general assembly for the Town of Man- 
chester, and for judge of probate for the district of Manches- 
ter shall be nominated in the manner hereinafter provided. — 

Sec. 2. The provisions of the general statutes concern- 
ing the enrollment of voters in political primaries and 
caucuses are hereby made part of this act. 

Sec. 3. Any elector legally registered upon the enroll- 
ment list of any political party may propose any elector of 
said town as a candidate for any town office or other office 
mentioned in section one, to be voted for at the next suc- 
ceeding annual town meeting or at any electors’ meeting to 
be held within three months thereafter, by a written state- 
mnt of the name and post office address of such candidate, 
and of the office and party for which he is proposed, en- 
dorsed and subscribed by at least ten electors of said town 
legally registered upon the enrollment list of the political 
party of which the person proposed is announced as a candi- 
date. Said proposal, endorsed as aforesaid, shall be lodged 
with the town clerk of the said town at least fifteen days 
before the third Tuesday of September next preceding said 
annual town meeting or electors’ meeting. Said town clerk, 
at least ten days before the nominating caucus hereinafter 
provided for is to be held, shall cause the names of all the 
candidates of all political parties so proposed as aforesaid, 
arranged so as to show the particular nomination of each 
proposed nominee, to be published in one or more newspa- 
pers published in said Town of Manchester. All expenses 
for such publication and ‘all expenses required by this act 
shall be paid by the town treasurer on~order of the select- 
men. 

Sec. 4. Only electors whose names are registered on the 


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enrollment list of their respective parties shall vote at nom- 
inating caucuses, as hereinafter provided, and such electors 
shall vote only for so many candidates for each office as said 
town is by law required to elect, or for sO many as are spe- 
cially provided for by this act. 


Sec. 5. If, fifteen days before said third Tuesday of 
September, a vacancy exists by reason of death, withdrawal, 
or failure to propose nominations, or other causes, in the 
nominations of any party for any of the offices to be voted 
for in said town at the annual town meeting or electors’ 
meeting to be held within three months thereafter, including 
justices of the peace and representatives in the general 
assembly for said town and judge of probate for the district 
of Manchester, then the town committee of the political 
party in the nominations of which such vacancy exists may 
propose a candidate or candidates to fill such vacancy, and 
upon the certificate of said town committee stating the 
names of candidates so proposed by it, filed with the town 
clerk at least ten days before said third Tuesday of Septem- 
ber, said town clerk shall add the name or names so pro- 
posed to the list of candidates of such party; and the persons 
proposed as aforesaid, and named in said certificate filed as 
aforesaid, shall be the candidates of said party to be voted 
for at the nominating caucus as hereinafter provided. 

Sec. 6. Any candidate whose name has been so pre- 
sented for nomination in said nominating caucus may with- 
draw his name by presenting a withdrawal in writing to 
the town clerk not later than five o’clock in the afternoon of 
the Friday next before said third Tuesday of September. 
In case of such withdrawal, or in the event of the death of 
any candidate, the town committee may fillsuchvacancy,and 
shall notify the town clerk in writing of such action not later 
than eight o’clock at night of the following Saturday, and 
said town clerk shall correct the list of names presented in 
accordance with such written statement of said town com- 
mittee. 

Sec. 7. On or before the Monday next preceding said 
third Tuesday of September the town clerk shall cause to 
be prepared and printed at least twice as many ballots of 
each political party as there are electors registered on the 
enrollment list of said party, each ballot to contain the list 
of all proposed candidates for nomination by said party for 
each office, arranged in alphabetical order, in accordance 
with the proposals for nominations filed with said town 


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clerk, as aforesaid, by said electors or by said town commit- 
tee, and at the left of each name proposed for nomination 
there shall be printed a hollow square not less than one- 
fourth of an inch in width. The name of the political party 
shall be printed at the top of the ballot of each political 
party, respectively. The names of candidates proposed for 
-each office shall be printed on said ballot under the name of 
the office for which they are proposed to be nominated. The 
ballots for the several political parties, and the envelopes for 
said ballots shall be of uniform size and shall be printed on 
plain white paper. Said town clerk shall provide a sufficient 
number of said envelopes and deliver the same to the en- 
velope distributors before the opening of the nominating 
caucus, shall deliver ballots of each political party to the 
chairman of the town committee of each party on or before 
the opening of said caucus, and shall provide the voting 
booths to be used at said caucus with a sufficient supply of 
lead pencils. Said nominating caucus shall be held in the 
town hall in said town, annually, on the third Tuesday of 
September, and the voting booths therein shall be used as 
provided by law for electors’ meetings. The polls shall be 
open at nine o’clock in the morning and shall remain open 
until eight o’clock at night of said day, and no longer. The 
registrars shall appoint one moderator, and voting booth 
tenders, ticket and envelope distributors, checkers, and 
counters for said nominating caucus, and shall provide at 
least as many ballot boxes for said caucus as there are po- 
litical parties voting at said meeting. Each ballot box shall 
be plainly marked with only the name of one political party. 
The voting list of said nominating caucus shall be the enroll- 
ment lists of the several political parties, two copies of which 
lists shall be furnished by the registrars of voters to the 
chairman of each town committee of the respective parties 
at least six days before said nominating caucus is held. 


Sec. 8. Each elector voting at said nominating caucus 
shall enter the voting booth, make a cross opposite the name 
of the proposed candidate or candidates for each office for 
whom he wishes to vote, in the square provided for such 
purpose on said ballot, place said ballot in an envelope, and 
shall then proceed to the ballot box and announce to the 
moderator his name, and the party for whose candidates he 
wishes to vote; when his name has been checked on the 
enrollment list he shall deposit his ballot in the ballot box 
of the political party in which he is enrolled. Separate 


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checkers and counters from each political party shall be pro- 
vided for each ballot box. No person shall vote at said 
caucus for more candidates for any office than his party is 
entitled to elect. Any ballot containing more names crossed 
as candidates for an office than one person is entitled to vote 
for shall be rejected so far as that office is concerned. The 
provisions of the general statutes concerning the endorsing 
and sealing of envelopes, and concerning double ballots, 
shall apply to said caucuses. A ballot deposited in a wrong 
box shall not be counted. 

Sec. 9. Upon the closing of the polls at said nominating 
caucus the ballots in each ballot box shall be separately 
counted, and the result of each count shall be separately cer- 
tified to by the counters and the moderator and the certifi- 
cates deposited with the town clerk as soon as completed; 
and the person so certified to have received the greatest 
number of votes as candidates of the respective parties for 
the several offices to be balloted for at the annual town 
meeting, or at.the electors’ meeting next thereafter to be 
held, shall be the nominees of the respective parties for the 
respective offices at said annual town meeting or at said 
electors’ meeting. ; 

Sec. 10. Ifa nomination by any party for any office shall 

fail to be made by reason of a tie vote at such nominating 
caucus, said caucus shall stand adjourned until the succeed- 
ing Thursday at nine o’clock in the forenoon, when the polls 
shall be opened and remain open until eight o’clock at night 
of said day and no longer, and ballots shall be cast for candi- 
‘dates for such nomination under the same provisions as are 
hereinbefore provided for nominating caucuses. The sev- 
eral officers appointed for the conduct of said nominating 
caucus shall continue to act in the same capacity at said 
adjourned caucus, unless otherwise ordered by the regis- 
trars. . 
Sec. 11. The provisions relating to said nominating cau- 
cus and the candidates to be voted for therein shall not be 
obligatory upon any political party or political organization 
in said town casting less than ten per centum of the total 
vote of said town at the last previous general election. 

Sec. 12. Any candidate who has been nominated in said 
nominating caucus may withdraw his name by sending a 
withdrawal in writing to the town committee of the political 
party with which he has registered, not later than five 
o'clock in the afternoon of the Friday before the election at 


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which he was to be voted for; and upon receipt of such 
withdrawal, or in the event of the death of any candidate 
before said time, said town committee may fill any vacancy 
caused thereby and shall notify the town clerk in writing 
of any nomination so made not later than eight o’clock at 
night of the following Saturday, whereupon said town clerk 
shall cause the list of the nominees of said party to be cor- 
rected in accordance with the written statement of said town 
committee. 

Sec. 13. At all town meetings and electors’ meetings 
held in said town, as many ballot boxes may be used as, in | 
the opinion of the selectmen, will facilitate the receiving of 
the votes at said meetings, for each of which ballot boxes, 
box tenders and checkers shall be appointed in the manner 
now provided by law for the holding of electors’ meetings 
when the electors vote by ballot and check list. 

Sec. 14. Said Town of Manchester, at any town meeting 
legally warned and held for that purpose, may authorize 
its board of selectmen to appoint such number of policemen 
as may, at said meeting, be determined upon, which police- 
men shall have the powers of constables to serve criminal 
process and arrest for crime, during the time for which they 
shall be appointed, unless sooner dismissed by said board. 
Said policemen shall be under the control of said board, 
which shall make all regulations as to their duties, and any 
policeman so appointed may be summarily dismissed by said 
board upon its own motion, at any time, or upon written 
complaint of any person to said board, after a hearing, upon 
such notice to said policeman and other parties interested as 
said board shall deem reasonable. | 

Sec. 15. There shall be annually elected in the Town of 
Manchester, on the first Monday in October, seven select- 
men, who shall constitute the board of selectmen and who, as 
such board, shall have all the powers now conferred by 
law upon selectmen, except such powers as may be other- 
wise conferred or provided for by this act, and shall also 
have such additional powers as are granted by this act. The 
office of first selectman in the Town of Manchester is hereby 
abolished. No person shall, at said annual town meeting, 
vote for more than five selectmen. 

Sec. 16. The selectmen so elected shall organize by the 
selection of one of their number to be chairman of the 
board. He shall preside at all meetings of the board and 
may call special meetings thereof, and shall have charge of 


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the preparation of the annual report of the board. He shall 
call special meetings of the board whenever requested by 
three members of the board. Said board shall also choose 
one of its number as secretary, who shall keep a correct 
report of all meetings of the board, which record shall be 
open to reasonable inspection, in the presence of the board 
or any member thereof, by any taxpayer or voter of said 
town. , . 

Sec. 17. Said board shall have charge of the prudential 
affairs of said town; shall plan, determine, and execute all 
town contracts, work, and obligations, the cost of which 
shall not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars, unless 
otherwise ordered by vote of the town; shall obtain for the 
town treasurer, in the manner provided by law, all such 
sums as the town shall vote to borrow; shall advise the town 
as to what expenses the town should incur and how the 
same shall be paid, but no money shall be borrowed or 
obligation given or incurred unless the same is authorized 
by vote of the town at a legally warned and held town meet- 
ing; shall annually cause to be prepared and published, and, 
as far as possible, distributed to each elector, at least ten 
days prior to the annual town meeting, a summary of the 
receipts and expenditures of said town, and of the amount 
and nature of the town’s indebtedness; and shall also pre- 
pare and publish an annual report, as now required by law. 


Sec 18. Whenever a special town meeting shall be called 
for any purpose, the board of selectmen shall investigate all 
matters to be brought before said meeting and recommend 
such action as, in its judgmnt, shall seem for the best inter- 
ests of the town, and said board shall, in its annual report, 
estimate the amounts needed for the various departments 
of the town’s expense for the year ensuing and recommend 
specific appropriations therefor. 


Sec. 19. No selectman of the Town of Manchester shall 
receive for his own use, directly or indirectly, from the treas- 
ury of the town, any payment, commission, or compensation 
for services rendered, or for materials, goods, or merchandise 
sold to said town, or to persons dependent on said town, 
or for the town’s use, unless he be the lowest bidder upon a 
contract awarded after open competition; provided, that 
nothing herein shall be so construed as to prevent the pay- 
ment of-salaries, as such, to said selectmen. Any selectman 
who shall be convicted of a violation of any provision of this 


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section shall be imprisoned not more than one year, or fined 
not more than three hundred dollars, or both. | 

Sec. 20. Said board shall appoint, and may remove for 
cause, a superintendent of roads and bridges and a super- 
intendent of charities, and may appoint, and may remove 
for cause, a superintendent of parks, none of whom shall be 
a member of said board, and may fix the compensation of 
said officers. Said board may also employ a clerk and fix | 
a reasonable compensation for his services. The town clerk 
shall be eligible for appointment as such clerk. 


Sec. 21. The board of selectmen shall hold at least one 
meeting in each month for the transaction of the business 
of the town, which meetings shall be open to the public, and 
reasonable notice of the time and place of holding said meet- 
ings shall be given by publication in a newspaper published 
in said town. At any such meeting any citizen of the town 
may be heard in discussion of any subject of general interest 
to the town or to the taxpayers thereof. The board may 
hold executive meetings at any time and place when neces- 
sary. Said board, or a majority thereof, shall execute all 
contracts in which the town is interested, and disburse all 
moneys. No bills against the town shall be paid until 
regularly approved by a majority of the board. 

Sec. 22. Whenever any work authorized by vote of the 
town shall exceed in its estimated cost the sum of one 
thousand dollars, said board, unless otherwise ordered by 
vote of the town, shall advertise for bids for the accomplish- 
ment of such work, and shall award the contract for the 
same to the lowest responsible bidder, reserving the right 
to reject any or all bids if the interest of the town so demand. 
All orders on the town treasurer shall be signed by a ma- 
jority of the board and attested by the clerk of said board. 

Sec 23. In the event of the absence, sickness, or inability 
of the chairman of the board, a chairman pro tempore shall 
be chosen who, during such absence or inability, shall have 
all of the powers and be charged with all of the duties and 
obligations incident to the position of chairman of the board. 

Sec. 24. Each member of the board shall be paid the sum 
of one hundred dollars per year for/ his services; provided, 
that such member has attended all the meetings of the board . 
for the current year, but for each failure to attend a regularly 
called meeting there shall be deducted from such compensa- 
tion a sum equal to the average amount received for each 
meeting of the board during the current year. Such sum 


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shall be in lieu of any compensation now provided by law, 
and in full payment for services rendered as a member of 
such board. 


Sec. 25. The board of selectmen, after notice in writing 
to the owner of a burned, dilapidated, or dangerous building, 
and a hearing, may adjudge such building to be a nuisance, 
or dangerous to the public, and may thereupon make an 
order prescribing the disposition, alteration, or regulation 
thereof. The town clerk shall deliver a copy of such order 
to any officer qualified to serve civil process in the Town of 
Manchester, who shall forthwith serve an attested copy 
thereof upon such owner or his representative, and make 
return of his doings thereon to said clerk. Any person or 
persons aggrieved by such order may, within ten days 
after the service thereof upon him, petition a judge of the 
court of common pleas for Hartford county for a review of 
the doings of said board of selectmen and, upon such notice 
to said board of selectmen as said judge may prescribe, said 
judge shall, after due hearing, appoint three disinterested 
freeholders of adjoining towns, not resident in Manchester, 
to review said doings. Said freeholders so appointed shall 
give due notice to all persons interested to appear and be 
heard before them at such time and place as they may fix, 
and- shall affirm, reject or alter said order of said selectmen, 
and make return of the same under oath to said judge. Said 
judge may accept said report, or may set the same aside and 
appoint other persons qualified in like manner to perform 
said duty. If, upon the acceptance of any such report, the 
order of the selectmen appealed from shall be reversed, the 
costs of said petition and review shall be paid by the Town 
of Manchester, otherwise by the applicant. Costs shall be 
taxed as in civil actions originally brought to said court, 
and said judge shall have power to issue execution for the 
amount of such costs. The report of the freeholders accepted 
by said judge shall be filed with the town clerk of said 
Town of Manchester and entered upon the records of said 
town. The board of selectmen shall have power and 
authority to enforce any order made under the provisions of 
this section, and, if the owner or owners of any such build- 
ing shall neglect or refuse to comply with such order within 
thirty days after it becomes final, said board of selectmen 
may cause said order to be carried out, and all expenses 
connected therewith shall be paid by the said owner or own- 
ers, and shall become a debt due from the owner or owners 


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of said building to said town and may be recovered by any 
proper action in the name of the Town of Manchester. 

Sec. 26. The annual town meeting of the Town of Man- 
chester shall be held at the time and in the manner now 
provided by law. : j 


Sec. 27. The Town of Manchester may make such orders 
and by-laws, not repugnant to law, as it may judge most 
conducive to its welfare, which orders and by-laws shall be 
binding upon all the inhabitants thereof and upon all per- 
sons coming within its limits. It may affix penalties for 
breaches thereof, not exceeding twenty dollars for each of- 
fence, which penalties may be recovered on complaint before 
the town court of Manchester and shall inure to the town 
or to such uses as it may direct. 

Sec. 28. There shall be three assessors in the Town of 
Manchester, and the town, at its annual town meeting in 
October next after the acceptance of this act, shall elect one 
assessor to hold office for the term of one year, one assessor 
to hold office for the term of two years, and one assessor to 
hold office for the term of three years, and at each annual 
town meeting thereafter said town shall elect one assessor 
to hold office for the term of three years. Each assessor 
shall hold office from the date of his election and until his 
successor is duly elected and qualified. In case of a vacancy 
in the office of assessor the town shall, at its next annual 
meeting, elect some person for the unexpired term. Any 
person qualified to vote in town meeting may vote for as 
many persons for assessor as said meeting is required to 
elect under the provisions of this act. 

Sec. 29. Any meeting called for the purpose of consid- 
ering the question of the adoption of this act shall be holden 
in the town hall in said Manchester, and shall be warned by 
advertisement published in some newspaper or newspapers 
published in said town and set upon the public sign-post 
in said town, signed by Richard Manning, Charles E. Bunce, 
Elisha C. Hilliard, A. Willard Case, Charles O. Treat, Frank 
' Cheney, Jr., F. Ernest Watkins, John S. Risley, Justus W. 

Hale, Julius J. Strickland, Harry M. Burke, Robert G. 
Campbell, John T. Robertson, Herbert O. Bowers, and 
Horace B. Cheney, electors residing within said town, or a 
majority of them, and by depositing a copy thereof with the 
registrars of voters of said town, at least fifteen days before 
the date of said meeting ; and said registrars shall thereupon 
prepare, for use at said meeting, a list of the legally qualified — 


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electors and voters of said town at the time of the comple- 
tion of the last revised registry list of the said town. Said 
meeting shall be opened at nine o’clock in the forenoon and 
closed at eight o’clock at night. Said registrars shall pre- 
pare a ballot box for use at said meeting which shall be open 
during the hours hereinbefore named; they shall also ap- 
point the moderator, checkers, and counters for the taking 
of the votes at said meeting, which votes shall be only upon 
the question of the adoption of this act, and shall be taken 
by ballot enclosed in an envelope and cast with the same 
formalities and under the same requirements as now pro- 
vided by law for ballots for town officers at town elections. 
The ballot to be used at said meeting shall be of plain white 
paper, four inches long and two inches wide, and shall bear 
the word “Yes” or the word “No” thereon; those in favor of 
the ratification and adoption of this act shall vote “Yes” 
and those opposed to the ratification and adoption of this 
act shall vote “No.” ‘The envelopes to be used at said 
meeting shall be provided by the town clerk of the Town of 
Manchester, and shall be of uniform size and color, and 
shall bear the seal of the state of Connecticut printed 
thereon. After the counting of said votes the result shall 
be declared by the moderator in open meeting and before 
any adjournment thereof. If said meeting shall vote to 
adopt and accept this act, it shall take effect immediately. 
If said meeting shall vote to reject this act, any meeting or 
meetings for its further consideration may be held, under 
the same conditions as to call and conduct, at any time 
before the sitting of the next general assembly. 


Sec. 30. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with any 
of the provisions of this act shall not be construed as inter- 
fering with or preventing the complete operation of this act 
and all its provisions; provided, however, that nothing in 
this act shall be construed to affect the resolution incor- 
porating the ninth school district of Manchester, approved 
June 11, 1895, and amendments thereto, and chapter 195 of 
the public acts of 1903; except that section four of said 
resolution incorporating the ninth school district of Man- 
chester is hereby amended to read as follows: In the Town 
of Manchester, in each year, before the third Tuesday of 
June, the school visitors shall elect three of their number, 
and the committee chosen under the provisions of this reso- 
lution shall also elect three of its number, and the board of 
selectmen shall elect three of its members, and the nine 


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persons shall be the joint board of the Town of Manchester 
in lieu of that provided for in section 2234 of the general 
statutes, and shall have the rights and perform the duties 
of said joint board prescribed in sections 2234, 2236, and 
2237 of the general statutes. 
Approved, June 28, 1907. 
Act adopted by Town October 28, 1907. 


(Substitute for House Bill No. 220) 
(322) 
An Act Amending an Act Concerning the Nomination of 
Candidates for Public Office, and the Number, Powers, 
and Duties of Town Officers in the Town of Manchester. 


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 
tives in General Assembly convened: 

Section 1. Section seven of an act concerning the nom- 
ination of candidates for public office, and the number, 
powers, and duties of town officers in the Town of Man- 
chester, approved June 28, 1907,, is hereby amended by add- 
ing after the word “nominated,” in line fourteen, the words 
“and the number of candidates for which each voter is en- 
titled to vote in the caucus shall be plainly designated at 
the left of the name of the office to be filled.” 

Sec. 2. The superintendent of roads and bridges in said 
town shall be, ex-officio, tree warden; and no public shade 
tree shall be cut or trimmed until the tree warden has issued 
a written permit to cut or trim such tree, which permit shall 
clearly specify what cutting or trimming may be done. The 
provisions of section 4443 of the general statutes as amended 
by chapter 83 of the public acts of 1903 and chapter 114 of 
the public acts of 1905 shall not apply to the Town of Man- 
chester. : 

Sec. 3. The selectmen of the Town of Manchester are 
hereby empowered to lay out and establish the grade, curb 
line, and width of sidewalks. The expense of establishing 
the grade, curb line, or width of sidewalks, exclusive of 
damages, shall be paid by said town. 

Sec. 4. Whenever any petition, resolution, or proposi- 
tion shall be presented to or offered at any meeting of said 
selectmen for designating and fixing the curb line, width, 
course, height, and level of any sidewalk in or upon any 
highway or street in said town, in the manner provided in 
the preceding section of this act, action on such petition, 


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resolution, proposition, or application shall be postponed to 
an adjourned meeting, or continued to the next regular 
monthly meeting of said selectmen, and notice thereof shall 
be given to the parties interested to appear, as they may see 
cause, before said selectmen at said adjourned or regular 
meeting, to be heard in relation thereto. A notice, signed 
by the chairman or clerk of said board of selectmen, and 
deposited in a post office in Manchester, postpaid and ad- 
dressed to each of said proprietors, or their legal representa- 
tives, at his or their last known post office address, at least 
ten days before the time of holding such meeting, shall be 
deemed sufficient notice to each and all of the parties. Said 
selectmen shall, at said meeting, or at an adjourned meeting 
thereof, hear all parties in interest who may appear, and 
shall make such decisions in the premises as to them shall 
seem proper. 

Sec. 5. Every order passed by said selectmen pursuant 
to the provisions of section four shall be filed with the town 
clerk and, unless appealed from, shall be recorded in the 
land records of the town. Any person aggrieved by any 
such order may, within ten days after the filing of such 
order, appeal therefrom to a judge of the court of common 
pleas for Hartford county, and such judge shall hear and 
determine such appeal. Such appeal shall be by a petition 
in writing, setting forth the order appealed from, asking for 
a rehearing of said order, with a citation attached thereto, 
signed by any authority authorized to sign writs, and re- 
turnable before any such judge at the same time, and served 
and returned in the same manner as is required in case of a 
summons in a civil action returnable before said court. 
Service of said citation shall be upon the town clerk. 

Sec. 6. Such appeal may be heard by such judge, 
or, upon the motion of any party interested therein, may ive 
referred for a hearing to a committee to be appointed by such 
judge, to report to him the facts and their conclusions 
thereon. 

Sec. 7. If after the hearing upon the appeal from any 
order such judge shall find cause to alter the same, then 
such judge may alter the order, having first caused notice 
to be given to all parties affected by any such alteration, 
and having given an opportunity to be heard regarding the 
same, as provided in section eight of this act. 

Sec. 8. If the judge or committee hearing such appeal 
shall be of the opinion that persons other than those who 


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appear upon the record are interested in the subject-matter 
of such appeal, such judge or committee shall cause notice 
to be given to such other persons, in such manner as such 
judge or committee may direct, to appear and be heard 
thereon. Such judge shall have all necessary power for the 
purpose of disposing of such appeal, and may render judg- 
ment therein, and may tax costs in his discretion in favor of 
any party as is now allowed by law in cases of appeals from 
judgment of justices of the peace, and may issue execution 
therefor. 

Sec. 9. Such judge shall, when proceedings in any ap- 
peal under this act are closed, return all papers connected 
with the case to the town clerk of Manchester, to be re- 
corded in the land records of said town and kept by him 
on file. 

Sec. 10. The selectmen of the Town of Manchester shall 
have power, whenever they deem it for the public good, to 
designate and establish building lines on the land of proprie- 
tors adjoining any highway within said town between which 
line and such highway no building or part of building, or 
appurtenances thereof, shall thereafter be set up or erected, 
‘and to alter building lines so established; provided, that the 
aggregate damages payable in consequence of the establish- 
ment or alteration of a building line under the provisions 
hereof shall not exceed the aggregate special benefits 
assessed hereunder upon the property benefitted thereby. 

Sec. 11. Before establishing or altering any building 
line, and before making any appraisal of damages or assess- 
ment of benefits therefor, a public hearing shall be given by 
the selectmen to all parties in interest, and notice of the 
time and place of such hearing shall be given by the select- 
men by causing a copy of the proposed order designating 
and establishing or altering any building line, together with 
a notice of the time and place of hearing thereon, to be filed 
in the town clerk’s office in said Manchester and published 
at least twice in a newspaper published in said town, at least 
five days before the day of hearing, and by depositing a like 
copy in any post office in said town, postage paid, directed 
to the person or persons interested at his or their last known 
post office address. 

Sec. 12. After such hearing, the selectmen may estab- 
lish or alter the building line in accordance with such pro- 
posed order, or may modify the line as proposed in such 
order and establish the modified line, and shall appraise all 


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damages therefor to the persons entitled to such damage, 
and shall assess upon the parties whose land is specially 
benefitted by the establishment or alteration of such line 
betterments or benefits therefor in proportion to the actual 
damages and special benefits to each respectively, and shall, 
within ten days after establishing such line, appraising dam- 
ages and assessing benefits therefor, cause the order estab- 
lishing such line to be filed for record in the town clerk’s 
office of said Manchester, together with a certificate signed 
by them, setting forth the damages appraised and benefits 
assessed on account threof, and shall also, within ten days, 
cause such order and'certificate to be published at least once 
in a newspaper published in said Town of Manchester, and 
a copy thereof to be sent by registered letter, postage pre- 
paid, to all persons in whose favor damages are appraised 
or against whose land benefits are assessed. 

Sec. 13. Any person aggrieved by such appraisal of 
damages or assessment of benefits, or both, may, within 
ten days after such order and certificate are filed in the town 
clerk’s office and such notice given, appeal from such ap- 
praisal of damages or assessment of benefits, or both, to a 
judge of the court of common pleas for Hartford county, 
and such judge shall hear and determine such appeal. Such 
appeal shall be by petition in writing, setting forth the whole 
of such appraisal and assessment appealed from, asking 
for a reappraisal of damages and reassessment of benefits, 
or for a reassessment of benefits only, with a citation at- 
tached thereto, signed by any authority authorized to sign 
writs, and returnable before such judge at the same time 
and served and returned in the same manner as is required 
in case of a summons in a civil action returnable before said 
court. Service of said citation shall be upon the town clerk. 

Sec. 14. Such appeal may be heard by such judge, but 
may, upon the motion of any party therein, be referred for a 
hearing to a committee to be appointed by such judge, which 
shall report to him the facts and its findings thereon. 

Sec. 15. If, after the hearing of any appeal, such judge 
shall find cause to alter such appraisal of damages or assess- 
ment of benefits, then such judge may alter the damages 
appraised in favor of any or all persons damaged, and may 
alter the assessment of benefits upon the persons whose 
lands are specially benefitted. 

Sec. 16. If the party or committee hearing such appeal 
shall be of opinion that persons other than those who appear 


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upon the record are interested in the subject-matter of such 
appeal, such judge or committee shall cause notice to be 
given of the pendency of such proceedings to such other 
persons, and in such manner as such judge or committee 
may direct, to appear and be heard thereon. Such judge 
shall have all necessary power for the purpose of disposing 
of such appeal, and may render judgment thereon, and may 
tax costs in favor of any party, and may issue execution 
therefor. 

Sec. 17. Such judge shall, when the proceedings in any 
such appeal are closed, return all papers connected with the 
case to the town clerk of Manchester to be recorded in said 
town and kept by him on file. 

Sec. 18. Such benefits as finally determined shall be a 
lien upon the land on account of which they were assessed, 
which lien shall begin and attach to said land from the time 
of filing the order and certificate of the selectmen with the 
town clerk as required in section twelve of this act; pro- 
vided, that the same shall not remain a lien thereon for 
more than six months thereafter, provided no appeals are 
taken therefrom, and when any appeal is taken, then for not 
more than six months from the time when the papers in 
such appeal proceedings are returned to the town clerk, as 
provided in section seventeen of this act, unless said select- 
men shall file with the town clerk of said Manchester a cer- 
tificate signed by them describing the premises assessed, 
the amount assessed, and the work for which the assessment 
was made, and the town clerk shall record such certificate 
in the land records of said town. 

Sec. 19. Such liens may be foreclosed in the name of 
the Town of Manchester in the manner provided by law for 
the foreclosure of mortgages, and the court having jurisdic- 
tion may limit a time for redemption, or order the sale of the 
property, or pass such other order or decree as it shall deem 
proper; or the town may, at its option, maintain a civil 
action in its name against the person. against whom the 
assessment has been laid to recover the amount of said 
assessment, together with the costs of certificate, recording, 
and interest at the rate of seven per centum per annum. 

Sec. 20. All assessments shall be due and payable 
within fifteen days after the order and certificates required 
in section twelve of this act are filed with the town clerk, 
provided no appeal is taken, and when an appeal is taken, 
then within fifteen days after the papers in such appeal are 


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returned to the town clerk as provided in section seventeen 
of this act, and all assessments remaining unpaid after they 
become due and ‘payable as herein provided shall draw in- 
terest at the rate of seven per centum per annum. 

Sec. 21. The Town of Manchester may adopt by-laws 
providing suitable penalties for encroachment upon or non- 
observance of any building lines legally established. 

Sec. 22. The board of selectmen of Manchester shall 
exercise all the powers and duties conferred by the general 
statutes on the wardens and burgesses of boroughs or the 
mayor and common council of cities for the regulation of 
the sale of milk. 

Sec. 23. The board of selectmen of Manchester shall 
exercise all the powers and perform all the duties of plumb- 
ing inspectors, and shall enforce all by-laws of the town, 
and shall have power to make orders and rules in regard to 
plumbing and drainage. 

Sec. 24. The board of selectmen.of Manchester shall 
hereafter exercise all the powers granted to the common 
councils of cities under section 2610 of the general statutes. 

Sec. 25. Section twenty of an act concerning the nom- 
ination of candidates for public office, and the number, 
powers, and duties of town officers in the Town of Man- 
chester, approved June 27, 1907, is hereby amended to read 
as follows: Said board shall appoint, and may remove for 
cause, a superintendent of roads and bridges, a superin- 
tendent of parks, and a superintendent of charities, which 
superintendent of charities shall, subject to and concurrent 
with said board, have the powers and perform the duties 
of selectmen in relation to town and state paupers, aliens, 
indigent persons, outside poor, insane persons, dependent 
children, soldiers, sailors, and other persons entitled to 
state aid, including burial expenses therefor provided by 
law, and any other duties which said board may legally do, 
as it may assign him. None of such superintendents shall 
be a member of said board of selectmen. Said board may 
fix the compensation of said officers and may also employ 
a clerk and fix a reasonable compensation for his services. 
The town clerk shall be eligible for appointment as such 
clerk. 

Sec. 26. Any meeting called for the purpose of consid- 
ering the question of the adoption of this act shall be a 
special meeting, and shall be holden in the town hall in said 
Town of Manchester, and shall be warned by advertisement 


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published in some newspaper or newspapers published in 
said town and set upon the public sign-post in said town, 
signed by the board of selectmen of said Manchester, or a 
majority of them, and by depositing a copy thereof with the 
registrars of voters of said town, at least fifteen days before 
the date of said meeting; and said registrars shall thereupon 
prepare, for use at said meeting, a list of the legally qualified 
electors and voters of said town at the time of the comple- 
tion of the last revised registry list of the said town. Said 
special meeting shall be opened at nine o’clock in the fore- 
noon and closed at eight o’clock at night. Said registrars 
shall prepare a ballot box for use at said meeting which 
shall be open during the hours hereinbefore named; they 
shall also appoint the moderators, checkers and counters for 
the taking of the votes at said meeting, which votes shall be 
only upon the question of the adoption of this act, and shall 
be taken by ballot enclosed in an envelope and cast with 
. the same formalities and under the same requirements as 
now provided by law for ballots for town officers at town . 
elections. The ballot to be used at said meeting shall be of 
plain white paper, four inches long and two inches wide, and 
shall bear the word “Yes” or the word “No” thereon; those 
in favor of the ratification and adoption of this act shall 
vote “Yes” and those opposed to the ratification and adop- 
tion of this act shall vote “No.” The envelopes used at said 
meeting shall be provided by the town clerk of the Town of 
Manchester and shall be of heavy manila paper, and shall 
bear the seal of the state of Connecticut printed thereon. 
After the counting of said votes the result shall be declared 
by the moderator in open meeting and before any adjourn- 
ment thereof. If said meeting shall vote to adopt this act 
it shall take effect immediately. If said meeting shall vote 
to reject this act, any meeting or meetings for the further 
consideration thereof may be held, under the same condi- 
tions as to call and conduct, at any time before the conven- 
ing of the next general assembly. 
Approved, July 14, 1909. 
Act rejected by town Nov. 2, 1909, and July 26, 1910. 


(House Bill No. 1049) 
| (44) 
An Act Amending an Act Concerning the Nomination of 
Candidates for Public Office, and the Number, Powers, 
and Duties of Town Officers in the Town of Manchester. 


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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 
tives in General Assembly convened: 

Section 1. Section seven of an act concerning the nom- 
ination of candidates for public office, and the number, pow- 
ers, and duties of town officers in the Town of Manchester, 
approved June 28, 1907, is hereby amended by adding after 
the word “nominated,” in line fourteen, the words “and be- 
neath the name of each office shall be printed the words 
‘you may vote for * to be followed by the number 
required to be nominated for such office.” 

Sec. 2. Section sixteen of said act is hereby amended 
in line one by adding, after the word ‘shall,’ the words 
“meet on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of October 
in each year at not later than two o’clock in the afternoon 
and shall qualify and.” 

Sec. 3. Section fifteen of said act is hereby amended by 
adding in line five, after the word “selectmen,”’ the words 
“including the powers and duties conferred .on first select- 
man of towns by statute.” 

Sec. 4. Section seven of said act is hereby amended to 
read as follows: On or before the Monday next preceding 
said Tuesday of September the town clerk shall cause 
to be prepared and printed as many ballots of each political 
party as there are electors registered on the enrollment list 
of said party, each ballot to contain the list of all proposed 
candidates for nomination by said party for each office, 
arranged in alphabetical order, in accordance with the pro- 
posals for nominations filed with said town clerk as afore- 
said, by said electors or said town committee, and at the 
left. of each name proposed for nomination § there 
shall be printed a hollow square not less’ than 
one-fourth’ of an inch in width. Said ballot shall 
be endorsed with the words “Official Ballot” and 
shall be printed with a numbered stub, and when voted shall 
be so folded that the entire face of the ballot shall be con- 
cealed, and the stub shall be torn off at the time of voting, 
without exposing any part of face of the ballot. The name 
of the political party shall be printed at the top of the ballot 
of each political party. The names of the candidates pro- 
posed for each office shall be printed on said ballot under 
the name of the office for which they are proposed to be 
nominated. The ballots for the several political parties 
shall be of uniform size and shall be printed on plain white 
paper. Said town clerk shall deliver the ballots of each 


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political party to the moderator of said nominating caucus 
at the opening of such caucus and shall provide the voting 
booths to be used at said caucus with a sufficient supply of 
lead pencils. Said nominating caucus shall be held in the 
town hall in said town, annually, on the third Tuesday of 
September, and the voting booths therein shall be open at 
nine o’clock in the morning and shall remain open until 
eight o’clock at night of said day, and no longer. ‘The regis- 
trars shall appoint one moderator, voting booth tenders, 
ticket distributors, checkers, and counters for said nom- 
inating caucus, and shall provide at least as many ballot 
boxes for said caucus as there are political parties voting 
at said meeting. Each ballot box shall be plainly marked 
with only the name of one political party. The voting list 
of said nominating caucus shall be the enrollment lists of 
the several political parties, two copies of which list shall 
be furnished by the registrars of voters to the chairman of 
each town committee of the respective parties at least six 
days before said nominating caucus is held. At least one - 
week before said nominating caucus the town clerk shall 
cause to be printed for general distribution sample ballots 
printed on pink paper equal to at least fifty per centum of 
the number of official ballots printed. Any person illegally 
having in his possession outside said voting booths an 
official ballot shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon 
conviction thereof shall be fined not more than one hundred 
dollars or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. 
Sec. 5. At the annual town meeting held next after the 
acceptance of his act and at all regular and special town 
meetings thereafter for the purpose of electing officers voted 
for at such elections, the ballots used shall be printed by the 
secretary of the state at the expense of the town. Said 
ballots shall be printed with numbered stubs and shall con- 
tain the names of candidates for every office, arranged 
under the designation of the office in alphabetical order ac- 
cording to their surnames; but the names of candidates for 
the same office but for different terms of service therein 
shall be arranged in groups according to the length of their 
respective terms. Blank spaces shall be left at the end of 
the list of candidates for each different office, equal to the 
number to be elected thereto, in which the voter may insert 
the name of any person not printed on the ballot for whom 
he desires to vote for such office. At the right of the name 
of each candidate shall be printed the name of the political 


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party which he represents. Upon the ballots may be printed 
such directions as will aid the voters, for example, “Vote 
for one,” “Vote for two,’ and the like. At the left of the 
name of each candidate shall be printed a hollow square 
not less than one-fourth inch in width. On the stubs of said 
ballots shall be printed the words “Place a cross mark X in 
the square to the left of the name of each candidate for 
whom you wish to vote.” 

Sec. 6. On the first Tuesday after the first Monday of 
October next after the acceptance of this act and annually 
thereafter the board of selectmen of the Town of Manches- 
ter shall appoint six grand jurors to hold office for the term 
of one year and until their successors are appointed and 
qualified. 

Sec. 7. On the first Tuesday after the first Monday of 
October next after the acceptance of this act and annually 
thereafter the board of selectmen of the Town of Manches- 
ter shall appoint two directors of the public library, to hold 
office for the term of three years and until their successors 
are appointed and qualified. 

Sec. 8. On the first Tuesday after the first Monday of 
October next after the acceptance of this act and annually 
thereafter the board of selectmen of the Town of Manches- 
ter shall appoint some person, other than the town clerk or 
town treasurer, agent of the town deposit fund for the term 
of one year and until his successor is appointed and quali- 
fied. 


Sec. 9. The selectmen of the Town of Manchester shall 
have power, whenever they deem it for the public good, to 
designate and establish building lines on the land of proprie- 
tors adjoining any highway within said town between which 
line and such highway no building or part of building, or 
appurtenances thereof, shall thereafter be set or erected, and 
to alter building lines so established ; provided the aggregate 
of damages payable in consequence of the establishment or 
alteration of a building line shall not exceed the aggregate 
special benefits assessed hereunder upon the property bene- 
fitted thereby. Before estabishing or altering any building 
line, and before making any appraisal of damages or assess- 
ment of benefits therefor, a public hearing shall be given by 
the selectmen to all parties in interest, and notice of the 
time and place of such hearing shall be given by the select- 
men by causing a copy of the proposed order designating 


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and establishing or altering any building line together with 
a notice of the time and place of hearing thereon to be filed 
in the town clerk’s office in said Manchester and published 
at least twice in a newspaper printed in said town, at least | 
five days before the day of hearing, and by depositing a 

copy in any post office in said town, postage paid, directed 
to the person or persons interested at his or their last known 
address. After such hearing, the selectmen may establish or 
alter the building line in accordance with such proposed 
order, or may modify the line as proposed in such order and 
establish the modified line, and shall appraise all damages 
therefor to the persons entitled to such damages, and shall 
assess upon the parties whose land is specially benefitted 
by the establishment or alteration of such line betterments 
or benefits therefor in proportion to the actual damages and 
special benefits to each respectively, and shall, within ten 
days after establishing such line, appraising damages and 
assessing benefits therefor, cause the order establishing such. 
line to be filed for record in the town clerk’s office of said 
Manchester, together with a certificate signed by them, set- 
ting forth the damages appraised and benefits assessed on 
account thereof, and shall also, within ten days, cause such 
order and certificate to be published at least once in a news- 
paper printed in said Town of Manchester, and a copy 
thereof to be sent by registered letter, postage paid, to all 
persons in whose favor damages are appraised or 
against whose land benefits are assessed. Any person 
aggrieved by such appraisal of damages or assessment of 
benefits or both, may within ten days after such order and 
certificate are filed in the town clerk’s office and such notice 
given, appeal from such appraisal of damages or assessment 
of benefits or both, to a judge of the court of common pleas 
for Hartford county, and such judge shall hear and deter- 
mine such appeal. Such appeal shall be by petition in writ- 
ing, setting forth the whole of such appraisal and assessment 
appealed from, asking for a reappraisal of damages and 
reassessment of benefits, or for a reassessment of benefits 
only, with a citation attached thereto, signed by any authority 
empowered to sign writs, and returnable before such judge 
at the same time and served and returned in the same man- 
ner as in case of a summons in a civil action returnable 
before said court. Service of said citation shall be upon the 
town clerk. Such appeal may be heard by such judge, but 
may, upon the motion of any party thereto, be referred for 


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a hearing to a committee appointed by such judge, which 
shall report to him the facts and their findings thereon. If, 
after the hearing of any appeal, such judge shall find cause 
to alter such appraisal of damages or assessment of benefits, 
he may alter the damages appraised in favor of any persons 
damaged, and the assessment of benefits upon the persons 
whose lands are specially benefitted. If the party or com- 
mittee hearing such appeal shall be of the opinion that 
persons other than those who appear upon the record are 
interested in such appeal, such judge or committee shall 
cause notice to be given of the pendency of such proceedings 
to such other persons, in such manner as such judge or com- 
mittee may direct. Such judge shall have all necessary 
power for the purpose of disposing of such appeal and may 
render judgment thereon and may tax costs in favor of any 
party and may issue execution therefor. Such judge shall, 
when the proceedings in any such appeal are closed, return 
all papers connected with the case to the town clerk of Man- 
chester to be recorded in said town and kept by him on file. 
Such benefits as finally determined shall be a lien upon the 
land on which they were assessed, which lien shall attach 
to said land from the time of filing the order and certificate 
of the selectmen with the town clerk,- provided the same 
shall not remain a lien thereon for more than six months 
thereafter, unless appeals are taken therefrom, and when 
any appeal is taken, then for not more than six months from 
the time when the papers in such appeal proceedings are 
returned to the town clerk, unless said selectmen shall file 
with the town clerk of said Manchester a certificate. signed 
by them describing the premises assessed, the amount 
assessed, and the work for which the assessment was made, 
and the town clerk shall record such certificate in the land 
records of said own. Such liens may be foreclosed in the 
name of the Town of Manchester in the manner provided 
by law for the foreclosure of mortgages, and the court 
having jurisdiction may limit a time for redemption, or 
order the sale of the property, or pass such other order or 
decree as it shall deem proper; or the town may, at its 
option, maintain a civil action against the person assessed, 
to recover the amount of the assessment, together with the 
costs of certificate, recording, and interest at the rate of 
seven per centum per annum. All assessments shall be due 
and payable within fifteen days after the order and certificate 
are filed with the town clerk, provided no appeal is taken, 


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and when an appeal is taken, then within fifteen days after 
the papers in such appeal are returned to the town clerk, 
and all assessments remaining unpaid after they become due 
and payable shall draw interest at the rate of seven per 
centum per annum. The Town of Manchester may adopt 
by-laws providing suitable penalties for encroachment upon 
or non-observance of any building lines so established. 


Sec. 10. Whenever the selectmen shall require by writ- 
ten order that the sidewalks be cleared of ice or snow, and 
owners of the adjacent property fail, neglect or refuse to 
clear the same within the time and in the manner required 
by said order, any selectman or other proper officer shall 
cause such ice or snow to be removed, and the costofremoval 
shall be assessed against the adjoining property and such 
assessment shall be and remain a lien upon said property, 
and, be collected in the same manner as taxes. Any such 
order shall continue in force until further action by said 
selectmen. | 

Sec. 11. The ballots cast by any nominating caucus 
shall, immediately after they have been counted, be returned 
by the moderator to their respective boxes, which shall be 
sealed and deposited by him in the town clerk’s office, so 
that the same cannot be opened without the knowledge of 
said moderator. The town clerk shall carefully preserve the 
same, with the seal unbroken, for seventy-two hours after 
such caucus, to be opened and the ballots examined only as 
hereinafter provided. At the expiration of said time said 
ballots shall be destroyed by the town clerk. Any candidate 
for any office at said nominating caucus may have the votes 
for the office for which he was a candidate recounted by 
giving a notice in writing to the town clerk asking for such 
a recount not later than five o’clock in the afternoon of the 
day following said nominating caucus. The town clerk 
shall forthwith notify the moderator of said nominating 
caucus of such request and said moderator shall cause the 
votes for such office to be recounted by two disinterested 
electors at two o’clock in the afternoon of the second day 
following said nominating caucus and the person certified 
by said counters and said moderator to have received the 
greatest number of votes for said office shall be the nominee 
for such office. The expense of such recount shall be borne 
by the person or persons requesting the same, if unsuccess- 
ful, otherwise by the Town of Manchester. 


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Sec. 12. The Town of Manchester is hereby authorized - 
to drain by storm water sewers and other drains all high- 
ways within said town, and may take any private land which 
it may deem necessary or convenient for such purposes. 
When the owner of land adjoining a public highway or of 
any interest in any land taken for a storm water sewer or 
other drain of said highway or of any interest in any land 
drained by said storm water sewer, shall sustain special 
damage or shall receive special benefits to his property by 
the reason of taking of such land, and the construction of 
such storm water sewer or drain in said highway or through 
said land, said town shall be liable to pay such owner the 
amount of such special damage or shall be entitled to receive 
from such owner the amount of such special benefits, to be 
ascertained in the manner provided in the case of laying out 
or altering highways. Whenever special benefits shall be 
assessed and established, concerning any land or interest 
_ therein, said town shall have a lien upon the lands concern- 
ing or upon which they are so assessed, to be established 
and enforced in the manner provided for establishing and 
enforcing liens for benefits occasioned by public works in 
said town. Said town may also construct, repair, and main- 
tain all crosswalks over and across the highways of said 
town. 

Sec. 13. The Town of Manchester is hereby authorized 
to purchase, sell, receive, accept, lease, and convey any es- 
tate, real, personal, or mixed, necessary or incidental to its 
purposes, including gifts, bequests, and devises; and invest 
and reinvest the proceeds and income of any such property. 
All gifts and conveyances of property heretofore made to 
said town are hereby confirmed and validated. 

Sec. 14. The selectmen of Manchester shall annually 
appoint a board of health and fix the number and compensa- 
tion of the members; said board of health is, to the exclusion 
of officers appointed by the county health officer, hereby 
vested with the exercise of all jurisdiction, powers, privi- 
leges, and duties now by law vested in and imposed upon 
town health officers. Said board of health may, from time to 
time, make such by-laws, rules, regulations, and orders as in 
its judgment the preservation of the public health shall 
require. Said board shall cause to be exercised and enforced 
such by-laws, rules, regulations, and orders, and generally 
do and cause to be done whatever is prescribed by the by- 
laws of said town to preserve health. Said board of health 


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_ shall exercise all the powers and duties conferred on the 
wardens and burgesses of boroughs, or the mayor and com- 
omn council of cities, for the regulation of the sale of milk. 
Said board of health shall exercise all the powers and per- 
form all the duties of plumbing inspectors and shall enforce 
all by-laws of the town and all orders and rules of the select- 
men in regard to plumbing and drainage. 

Sec. 15. The chief of police of the Town of Manchester 
shall exercise and perform all the powers and duties con- 
ferred upon the chiefs of police of cities. 

Sec. 16. The Town of Manchester may use voting ma- 
chines at said nominating caucus as provided by law relating 
to the use of voting machines. 

Sec. 17. The selectmen of Manchester shall hereafter 
exercise all the powers granted to the common councils of 
cities under section 2610 of the general statutes 

Sec. 18. The Town of Manchester may adopt the pro- 
visions of chapter 241-.of the public acts of 1911 at any town 
meeting duly warned and held for that purpose. 

Sec. 19. The selectmen of the Town of Manchester may 
construct, maintain, and repair curbs and sidewalks upon 
any highway at the expense of said town. Said selectmen 
shall not expend in any year a greater sum for sidewalks 
than shall be appropriated by the town for that purpose. 

Sec. 20. Section eighteen of this act shall take effect 
from its passage. 

Sec. 21. No section of this act, except section eighteen, 
shall take effect until it shall have been approved by the 
voters of the town at a meeting duly warned and held for 
that purpose. At said meeting the polls shall be open from 
nine o'clock in the morning until eight o’clock at night. The 
registrars of voters shall prepare a ballot box for use at said 
meeting. They shall also appoint the moderator, checkers, 
and counters for the taking of the votes at said meeting, 
which votes shall only be upon the adoption of this act, 
section by section, as hereinafter provided, and shall be 
taken by ballot enclosed in an envelope and cast with the 
same formalities and under the same requirements as now 
provided by law for ballots for town officers. The ballots 
to be used at said meeting shall be of plain white paper four 
inches in width. The questions to be voted upon at said 
meeting shall be numbered as the sections of this act are 
numbered. The matter to be voted upon in each section 
shall be described upon said ballots in a printed statement 


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not to exceed thirty words. At the left of each section shall 
be printed two hollow squares, each not less than one- 
fourth of an inch in width. Above one square shall be 
printed the word “Yes” and above the other square the word 
“No.” Those in favor of the ratification of any section of 
this act shall place a crossmark X in the square to the left 
of such section and beneath the word “Yes.” ‘Those opposed 
to the ratification of any section of this act shall place a 
crossmark X in the square to the left of such section and 
beneath the word “No.” The envelopes used at said meeting 
shall be provided by the town clerk of said town and shall be 
of heavy manila paper, and shall bear the seal of the state 
of Connecticut printed thereon. After the counting of said 
votes, section by section, the result as to each section shall 
be declared by the moderator in open meeting and before 
any adjournment. If said meeting shall vote to adopt any 
section of this act, it shall take effect immediately. If said 
meeting shall vote to reject any section of this act, any meet- 
ing for the further consideration of such rejected sections 
may be held, under the same conditions as to call and con- 
duct, at any time before the convening of the next general 
assembly. 
Approved, April 9, 1913. 
Act adopted by town, in part, May, 1913. 


(House Bill No. 109) 
(185) 
An Act Amending an Act Concerning the Nomination of 
Candidates for Public Office, and the Numbers, Powers, 
and Duties of Town Officers in the Town of Manchester. 


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 
tives in General Assembly convened: 

Section 1. Section four of an act amending an act con- 
cerning the nomination of candidates for public office, and 
the number, powers, and duties of the town officers in the 
Town of Manchester, approved March 9, 1913, is hereby 
amended to read as follows: On or before the Monday next 
preceding said third Tuesday of September the town clerk 
shall cause to be prepared and printed as many ballots of 
each political party as there are electors registered on the 
enrollment list of said party, each ballot to contain the list 
of all proposed candidates for nomination by said party for 
each office, arranged in alphabetical order in accordance with 


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the proposals for nominations filed with said town clerk as 
aforesaid, by said electors or said town committee, and at 
the left of each name proposed for nomination there shall be 
printed a hollow square not less than one-fourth of an inch 
in width. Said ballot shall be endorsed with the words 
“Official Ballot” and shall be printed with a numbered stub, 
and when voted shall be so folded that the entire face of the 
ballot shall be concealed, and the stub shall be torn off at 
the time of voting, without exposing any part of the ballot. 
The name of the political party shall be printed at the top 
of the ballot of each political party, respectively. The names 
of the candidates proposed for each office shall be printed 
on said ballot under the name of the office for which they are 
proposed to be nominated and beneath the name of each 
office shall be printed the words “You may vote for 4 
to be followed by the number required to be nominated for 
such office. The ballots for the several political parties shall 
be of uniform size and shall be printed on plain white paper. 
Said town clerk shall deliver the ballots of each political 
party to the moderator of said nominating caucus at the 
opening of such caucus and shall provide the voting booths 
to be used at said caucus with a sufficient supply of lead 
pencils. Said nominating caucus shall be held in the town 
hall in said town, annually, on the third Tuesday of Septem- 
ber, and the voting booths therein shall be open at nine 
o'clock in the morning and shall remain open until eight 
o'clock at night of said day, and no longer. The registrars 
shall appoint one moderator, voting booth tenders, ticket 
distributors, checkers, and counters for said nominating 
caucus, and shall provide at least as many ballot boxes for 
said caucus as there are political parties voting at said meet- 
ing. Each ballot box shall be plainly marked with only the 
name of one political party. The voting list of said nom- 
inating caucus shall be the enrollment lists of the several 
political parties, two copies of which list shall be furnished 
by the registrars of voters to the chairman of each town 
committee of the respective parties at least six days before 
said nominating caucus is held. At least one week before 
said nominating caucus the town clerk shall cause to be 
printed for general distribution sample ballots printed on 
pink paper equal to at least fifty per centum of the number 
of official ballots printed. Any person illegally having in his 
possession outside said voting booths an official ballot shall 
be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof 


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shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, or impris- 
oned not more than six months, or both. 

Sec. 2. Section nineteen of said act is hereby amended 
to read. as follows: Whenever the selectmen of the Town 
of Manchester, upon petition or otherwise, after due notice 
and hearing, shall find that public necessity and convenience 
require the construction of a sidewalk and curb upon any 
highway of said town, or the repairs of any sidewalk or curb 
in said town, they may order the construction of such side- 
walk and curb, or such repairs, as the case may be, and 
cause the same to be completed; and in such order, in addi- 
tion to finding public necessity and convenience therefor, 
they shall specify the materials, dimensions, location, and 
grade of such constructon or repairs, and on such construc- 
tion or repairs being completed, said town shall have a lien 
upon the land in front of which such sidewalk and curbs are 
constructed, or such repairs are made, for two-thirds of the 
cost of such construction, or such repairs, as the case may 
be, and said lien may be recorded and fore closed in the same 
manner as tax liens. Notice of the time and place of meeting 
of such selectmen, and of all orders made by them under this 
act, may be given to the parties interested, if they are resi- 
dents of the state, personally, or by leaving written- notice 
at their respective places of abode, or by depositing in the 
post office, postage paid, notices addressed to them respec- 
tively ; or if they are non-residents by like notice tothe person 
having charge of the land. Every order passed by said se- 
lectmen pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be filed 
with the town clerk of said town, and unless appealed from 
shall be recorded in the land records of said town. Any per- 
son aggrieved by any such order may, within ten days after 
the filing of such order, appeal therefrom to a judge of the 
court of common pleas for Hartford county, and such judge 
shall hear and determine such appeal. Such appeal shall be 
by a petition in writing, setting forth the order appealed 
from, asking for a rehearing of said order, with a citation 
attached thereto, signed by any authority authorized to 
sign writs, and returnable before such judge at the same 
time and served and returned in the same manner as is re- 
quired in case of a summons in a civil action returnable 
before said court. Service of said citation shall be upon the 
town clerk of said town. Such appeal may be heard by such 
judge, or upon the motion of any party interested therein, 
may be referred for a hearing to a committee to be appointed 


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by such judge, to report to him the facts and their con- 
clusions thereon. If, after the hearing upon the appeal from 
any order, such judge shall find cause to alter the same, then 
such judge may alter the order, having first caused notice 
to be given to all parties affected by any such alteration, and 
having given an opportunity to be heard regarding the same, 
as provided herein. If the judge or committee hearing such 
appeal shall be of the opinion that persons other than those 
who appear of record are interested in the subject-matter of © 
such appeal, such judge or committee shall cause notice to 
be given to such other persons, in such manner as such 
judge or committee may direct, to appear and be heard 
thereon. Such judge shall have all necessary power for the 
purpose of disposing of such appeal, and may render judg- 
ment therein, and may tax costs in his discretion in favor of 
any party as is now allowed by law in cases of appeals from 
judgments of justices of the peace, and may issue execution 
therefor. Such judge shall, when proceedings in any appeal 
under this act are closed, return all papers connected with 
the case to the town clerk of Manchester, to be recorded. in 
the land records of said town and kept by him on file. 

Sec. 3. Section one of said act is hereby repealed. 

Sec 4. Section nineteen of said act as hereby amended 
shall not take effect until it’ shall have been approved by the 
voters of said town at a meeting duly warned and held for 
that purpose. At that meeting the polls shall be open from 
nine o'clock in the morning until eight o’clock at night. The 
registrars of voters shall prepare a ballot box for use at said 
meeting. They shall also appoint the moderator, checkers, 
and counters for the taking of the votes at said meeting, 
which votes shall only be upon the adoption or rejection of 
section nineteen as hereby amended, and shall be taken by 
ballot enclosed in an envelope and cast with the same for- 
malities and under the same requirements as now provided 
by law for ballots for town officers. The ballots to be used 
at said meeting shall be four inches long and two inches 
wide and shall be of plain white paper and shall bear the 
word “Yes” or the word “No” thereon; those in favor of the 
ratification and adoption of said section nineteen shall vote 
“Yes” and those opposed to the ratification and adoption of 
said section shall vote “No.” The envelopes at said meeting 
shall be provided by the town clerk of said town and shall be 
of heavy manila paper, and shall bear the seal of the state 
ef Connecticut printed thereon. After the counting of said 


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votes the result shall be declared by the moderator in open 
meeting and before any adjournment. If said meeting shall 
vote to adopt said section nineteen it shall take effect imme- 
diately. If said meeting shall vote to reject said section nine- 
teen, any meeting for the further consideration of said sec- 
tion may be held, under the same conditions as to call and 
conduct, at any time before the convening of the next gen- 
eral assembly. 
Approved, May 14, 1913. 


Act adopted by town, June 12, 1913. 


(Substitue for House Bill No. 929) 
(356) 
An Act Amending an Act Concerning the Nomination of 
_ Candidates for Public Office and the Number, Powers, and 
Duties of the Town Officers in the Town of Manchester. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
in General Assembly convened : 

Section 1. Section fifteen of an act concerning the nomina- 
tion of candidates for public office.and the number, powers, 
and duties of town officers in the town of Manchester, approved 
June 28, 1907, as amended by section three of an act amending 
an act approved April 9, 1913, is hereby amended to read as 
follows: ‘There shall be elected annually in the town of Man- 
chester, on the first Monday of October, a board of selectmen 
consisting of seven members. Said board shall have all the 
powers of selectmen of towns, the powers and duties conferred by 
the provisions of the general statutes upon the first selectmen 
of towns, and such additional powers as are granted by the pro- 
visions of this act. The office of first selectman in the town of 
Manchester is hereby abolished. At any annual election each 
elector may vote for seven selectmen. 

See. 2. On the first Tuesday after the first Monday of Octo- 
ber after the acceptance of this act and annually thereafter, the 
board of selectmen of said town shall appoint a cemetery commit- 
tee consisting of three persons for each of the cemeteries of said 
town. Each member of said committee shall hold office for the 
term of one year and until his successor is appointed and.quali- 
fied. 

Sec. 3. On the first Tuesday after the first Monday of Oc- 
tober after the acceptance of this act, said board shall appoint 
members of a board of relief who shall be electors of the town 
of Manchester, one to hold office for a term of one year, one for 
a term of two years, and one for a term of three years, and an- 


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nually thereafter, said board shall appoint one member of the 
board of relief to hold office for a term of three years from the 
date of his appointment and until his successor is appointed and 
qualified. Any vacancy in the membership of the board of 
relief shall be filled by the selectmen for the unexpired portion 
of the term. ‘The compensation of the members of the board 
of relief shall be fixed by the board of selectmen. 

Sec. 4. The sealer of weights and measures shall perform 
his duties subject to the approval of the board of selectmen and 
shall receive such compensation as said board may determine. 

Sec. 5. Said town is authorized to appropriate money to be 
expended by the board of selectmen for the following purposes: 
T’o manufacture, buy, house, and sell ice, and harvest, buy, house, 
and sell ice from any pond or reservoir controlled by said town, 
provided the methods employed in the conduct of such business 
shall be approved by the board of health of said town.  Rules_ 
for the conduct of such business shall be established by the board 
of selectmen, with the approval of said town at a town meeting 
warned and held for such purpose, prior to procuring any ice, 
provided the price at which the same may be sold shall be fixed 
by the board of selectmen and shall be at such amount as will re- 
imburse said town for all expenses incident to the manufacture 
or harvesting, and distributing the same, including any charge 
for interest on money invested in such business; depreciation of 
all machinery, buildings, and equipment; renewals; and inciden- 
tal expenses. 

See. 6. Upon petition of not less than one hundred electors 
of said town filed with a member of the board of selectmen before 
final action upon any question submitted or to be submitted at 
any town meeting, except the laying of the annual tax, the 
selectmen shall, and of their own volition may, submit any such 
question at any town meeting for discussion only. The vote on 
any question so submitted shall be taken at a subsequent meeting, 
the date of which may,be designated on the petition to the select- 
men. Such vote shall be taken by ballot, or by use of voting 
machines, as the selectmen may determine, in the manner pre- 
scribed by the general statutes for the conduct of town elections. 

Sec. 7%. In case of any conflict of authority between the 
Town of Manchester and any district incorporated within the 
limits of the said town, the authority of said town shall prevail. 

Sec. 8. The secretary of the board of selectmen is authorized 
to sign all notices and records required to be signed by the 
board of selectmen, except orders for the payment of money. 

Sec. 9. The board of selectmen shall cause all notes of the 
town to be certified by a bank or trust company. 


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Sec. 10. At town elections the polls shall be open at eight 
o’clock in the forenoon and shall close at eight o’clock in the 
afternoon. 


Sec. 11. Section five of an act amending an act concerning 
the nomination of candidates for office and the number, powers, 
and duties of town officers in the Town of Manchester approved 
April 9, 1913, is hereby repealed. 


Sec. 12. Section eighteen of said act approved June 28, 
1907, is hereby amended to read as follows: Whenever a town 
meeting shall be called for any purpose, the board of selectmen 
shall investigate the matters to be brought before such meeting 
and shall recommend such action as the interests of said town 
shall require. In the annual report of said town, said board 
shall make an estimate of the amount of money required for the 
conduct of each department for the year ensuing and _ shal] 
recommend specific appropriations therefor. 


Sec. 13. The auditors shall audit the accounts of all officials 
of the town, and of all persons required to account to the town 
for the receipt or expenditure of moneys, at least once in each 
six months. ach auditor shall receive five dollars per day 
while engaged in performing the duties of his office. : 


Sec. 14. No person, firm, or corporation shall commence the 
erection of any building or continue the erection of any building 
within the lhmits of the Eighth school district or the South 
Manchester fire district without having received a building per- 
mit from the building inspector. Any person or firm, or the 
agent of any corporation, who shall violate any provision of this 
act shall be fined not more than five dollars, and each day’s con- 
tinuance of any building or part thereof erected without having 
obtained such permit shall constitute a separate offense. 

Sec. 15. No person, firm, or corporation shall install any 
electric fixture, light, or switch in any building situated in the 
Eighth school district or the South Manchester fire district with- 
out permission of the building inspector. Any person who shall 
violate any provision of this section shall be fined not more than 
five dollars. Each day’s use of such fixture, light, or switch 
installed in violation of the provisions of this act shall consti- 
tut@a separate offense. 

See. 16. Section twenty-four of said act anproved June 28, 
1907, is hereby amended to read as follows: The compensation 
of the members of the board of selectmen shall be as follows: 
The chairman and the secretary shall be paid each two hundred 
dollars per year, each of the other members of said board sliall 
receive one hundred dollars per year, which amounts shall be in 


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full compensation for services rendered, provided the compensa- 
tion for selectmen, as fixed by the provisions of this section, shall 
take effect at the expiration of the terms of the selectmen in 
office in said town at the time of the passage of this act. 


Sec. 17. Section fourteen of said act approved April 9, 1913, 
is hereby amended by adding thereto the following: ‘The board 
of health may compel the owners of property abutting any street 
or highway in which a public sewer is laid to connect any build- 
ing on such property with such sewer. ‘The order requiring the 
owner of any building to connect the same with such sewer shal] 
be served upon such owner by leaving at his usual place of abode 
a true and attested copy thereof, if he be a resident of said town, 
otherwise service thereof shall be made by leaving a true and 
attested copy with the agent of such owner, or person having 
charge of such premises, or by mailing such copy by registered 
mail to the last known address of such owner or agent. If such 
owner shall fail to connect such building with such sewer within 
the time limited by such order, he shall be fined not more than 
one hundred’ dollars. All pipes or drains within any highway 
through which sewage passes shall be a public sewer within the 
meaning of the provisions of this act.” 


Sec. 18. Section twenty-two of said act approved June 28, 
1907, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following: “Hx- 
cept that said town is authorized to establish a by-law designating 
the time and manner of paying the employees of the town em- 
ployeed under the authority of the selectmen’and who receive a 
daily or weekly compensation, the police, and the teachers in the 
public schools of said town.” 


Sec. 19. Section fourteen of said act approved June 28, 
1907, is hereby ammended to read as follows: On the first Tues- 
day after the first Monday of October after the acceptance of this 
act, the board of selectmen shall appoint a board of police com- 
missioners who shall be electors of said town as follows. One 
for a term of one year, one for a term of two years, and one 
for a term of three years, and annually thereafter on the first 
Tuesday after the first Monday of October said board shall ap- 
point one member to hold office for a term of three years and un- 
til his successor is appointed and qualified. Any vacancy ghall 
be filled by appointment of the board of selectmen for the un- 
expired portion of the term. Said commissioners shall serve 
without compensation. The board of police commissioners shall 
have direction of all policemen of said town and may exercise all 
powers previously vested in the board of selectmen in relation to 
the police. Charges against policemen of said town shall be 


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‘made only to the board of police commissioners who are author- 
ized to dismiss any policeman. 

Sec. 20. Section nineteen of said act approved June 28, 
1907, as amended by an act approved May 14, 1913, is hereby 
amended to read as follows: When the selectmen of said town, 
upon petition or otherwise, after reasonable notice in writing to 
the owners of property adjacent to any highway, served personal- 
ly or by registered mail by any officer or indifferent person au- 
thorized by the selectmen, designating a time when and place 
where a hearing will be had, shall find that public interest and 
convenience require the construction of a sidewalk or curb, or 
both, upon either or both sides of any highway, or the repair of 
any sidewalk or curb, or both, they may construct such walk, 
curb, or both, or make such repairs as may be necessary. In such 
finding they shall specify the materials, dimensions, location, 
and grade of any walk or curb to be laid, and upon completion 
thereof they shall give notice to the owners of property abutting 
such walk, of a time and place where they will meet for the 
purpose of assessing two-thirds of the cost thereof upon the prop- 
erty adjacent to such walk or curb. Such notice shall be by 
publication in a newspaper at least five days prior to the date 
of such hearing, in said town, if any there be, otherwise in a daily 
newspaper published in the city of Hartford and having a sub- 
stantial circulation in said town of Manchester. Any abutting 
land owner may appear at such hearing and show cause, if any 
he has, why such assessment should not be made. After such 
hearing, two-thirds of the amount expended in the construction 
of such walk, curb, or repairs shall be assessed on the land adja- 
cent to such walk, and the amount of any assessment so made 
shall be a lien upon the property adjacent thereto, and shall take 
precedence of all other liens, mortgages, attachments, and encum- 
brances, tax liens of a prior date excepted, and shall remain a 
lien upon such property in favor of said town, and payment 
thereof may be enforced in the name of said town in a civil action 
or by foreclosure, provided such lien shall not attach to such 
property for a longer period than two months from the date of 
such assessment, unless a certificate made and signed by a select- 
man of said town, thereunto authorized by the board of select- 
men, describing the premises, the amount claimed as a lien, the 
date of the completion of the sidewalk, curbing, or repairs, and 
the date of the assessment thereof, shall be lodged with the 
town clerk of said town. Such liens shall bear interest from the 
date of the assessment at the rate of three-fourths of one per 
centum per month until paid, and any such len shall cease to 
exist when a certificate, signed by the selectmen, that the amount 


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of such lien, with the interest and costs of recording the same, 
has been paid to said town, shall be lodged with the town clerk. 
Any person aggrieved by such assessment or by any order of the 
board of selectmen in relation to any walk, curb, or repairs, may 
appeal therefrom to the court of common pleas for Hartford 
county in the manner and form provided in sections 1956 to 
1959, inclusive, of the general statutes, revision of 1902. 


Sec. 21. Upon approval of this act by the electors of said 
town as hereinafter provided, the board of selectmen are author- 
ized to cause to be compiled and published all town acts and 
amendments thereto from the date of the approval of this act 
by said town to and including its original resolution of incor- 
poration in 1823, with an index of the same. Said board is 
authorized to draw its order on the treasurer of said town for 
such sum as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this 
section. 

Sec. 22. Section twenty-two of said act approved June 28, 
1907, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following: 
“Said board of selectmen shall locate all public lights within 
the streets and public places of said- town, including unaccepted 
streets therein.” 

Sec. 23. The provisions of this act shall take effect upon 
approval by a majority of the electors of said town at a meeting 
held for such purpose, except sections twenty and twenty-two 
which shall take effect from their passage. The polls +shall be 
open at the meeting held for the purpose of approving this act 
from nine o’clock in the forenoon until eight o’clock in the after- 
noon. The registrars of voters shall prepare a list of the voters 
for use at said meeting. They shall appoint a moderator, check- 
ers, and counters for the conduct of said meeting, and a separate 
vote shall be taken upon each section separately by voting ma- 
chine. ‘The ballot label shall be printed in black ink and in 
plain type on clear white material of such size as will fit the vot- 
ing machine and shall be furnished by the town clerk. Each 
section shall be described upon the ballot label having reference 
thereto and there shall be contained thereon the words “Yes” and 
“No,” attached to the levers of the voting machine so that each 
voter may vote “Yes” or “No” on each section. The section 
to be voted upon at such meeting shall correspond in numerical 
order to the sections of this act. Those desiring to vote in favor 
of any section shall vote ,“Yes” concerning such section and those 
opposed to any section shall vote “No” concerning such section. 
The result of the vote upon each section shall be declared by the 
moderator in open meeting and before adjournment of such 


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election. Ifa majority of those voting on any section shall vote 
“Yes,” such section shall thereupon take effect. If a majority 
of those voting on any section shall vote “No,” such rejected 
section may receive further consideration of the electors at any 
time before the convening of the January session of the general 
assembly in 1917, under the same terms and conditions as pro- 
vided in this act. 

Approved May 20, 1915. 

Act Adopted by Town August 12, 1915. 


(Substitute for House Bill No. 551) 
(299) 
An Act Incorporating the Eighth School and Utilities Dis- 
trict of Manchester. 


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
in General Assembly convened. 

Sec. 1. The territory of the Town of Manchester within the 
limits of the Highth School District of said town and the inhabi- 
tants residing therein are hereby constituted a-body politic in- 
corporate by the name of the Highth School and Utilities Dis- 
_ trict and by that name they and their successors shall have 
perpetual succession and may sue and be sued, plead and be 
empleaded, may purchase, take, hold, convey, and lease such 
estate real or personal as may be necessary or convenient for the 
use of the District, shall have.the powers and privileges of school 
districts under the law of this State and all the powers possessed 
by said Eighth School District, shall have the authority to pro- 
vide a supply of water for fire and other purposes by contract 
with the Manchester Water Company, may establish and main- 
tain a fire department for the purpose of protecting property 
within its limits from fire, and at any legal meeting especially 
warned for that purpose shall have power to form fire compan- 
ies and to appoint or provide for the appointment of members 
thereof, officers for the same to provide by purchase, lease or 
otherwise land and buildings for engine or hose houses, and to 
provide all necessary apparatus and to keep the same in repair, 
to defray the necessary expenses of such fire companies as they 
may organize, and of the department, to make bylaws for the 
regulation and government of the fire department and compan- 
ies and for the proper regulation and government of the people 
when called into service on occasion of fires, for compelling the 
owners of buildings to procure and maintain ladders for use upon 
the same, for the regulation and control of deposits of ashes, 
for ordering the discontinuing of stove-pipes, chimneys and any- 


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thing considered defective or in danger of causing fire, and may 
have a common seal which they may change. 

Sec. 2. After the first meeting hereinafter provided, all 
meetings of said corporation shall be held within said district 
and at such time and place and after giving such notice as is by 
law provided for school districts. The warning of any meeting 
pertaining exclusively to school affairs may be signed by the 
school committee or a \aajority of them. The warning of all 
other meetings shall be signed by the president or clerk, or in 
their absence or inability by a majority of the directors. Any 
person qualified to vote at school district meetings may be pres- 
ent and vote at meetings of said corporation. 

Sec. 3. The officers of said corporation shall be a President, 
Six Directors, a school committee consisting of three members, a 
clerk, a treasurer, a collector, and such other officers as said 
corporation by its by-laws or by vote may provide for or elect. 
All said officers elected after the first meeting of said corporation 
except as hereinafter provided shall hold office for the period of 
one year from the fifteenth day of July next succeeding and until 
their successors are elected or appointed and qualified. Elections 
of officers shall be by ballot. A majority of the legal voters 
present and voting shall elect. At the first meeting of said 
corporation all officers provided for in this act excepting members 
of the school committee shall be elected and shall hold office until 
the annual meeting which shall be held according to the pro- 
visions of the General Statutes for the annual meeting of school 
districts, and until their successors are qualified. At the annual 
meeting held after the first meeting of said corporation two 
directors shall be elected to hold their office for three years, two 
for two years, and two for one year, and until their successors 
are chosen and qualified. Annually thereafter two directors 
shall be elected to succeed those whose terms shall expire, to hold 
office for three years and until others are chosen and qualified in 
their stead. Special meetings of said corporation shall be called 
by the President or Clerk when requested so to do in writing by 
not less than ten of the legal voters in said district and a quorum 
at any such meeting shall not be less than fifteen legal voters. 
Special meetings shall be called in manner provided in the by- 
laws. Special meetings relating to school matters only may be 
called: by the school committee as provided by law for special 
meetings of school districts. 'The School Committee existing at 
the time of the first meeting of said district shall continue in 
office until the fifteenth day of July next succeeding the annual 
meeting of said district next following the first meeting. 

See. 4. The School Committee shall have exclusive control 


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of all the business, affairs and property of said corporation relat- 
ing to schools and shall have all of the duties and powers of com- 
mittees of school districts prescribed by law. 

Sec. 5. ‘The records and accounts of all matters pertaining 
to schools shall be kept separate from such matters as relate to 
other business of said district. 

Sec. 6. The President and directors shall have control of the 
affairs of said district, matters relating to schools excepted, and 
power to lay out, construct, maintain and repair wherever they 
deem necessary sewers and drains which may pass through, along, 
or over any street, highway or public or private ground with a 
right to so excavate and grade the same as may be necessary 
for such construction or repairs, provided that such streets, high- 
ways and public grounds shall be left in as good condition as be- 
fore laying such sewers and drains and any defect in the same 
caused by the construction or maintenance of sewers or drains 
shall be repaired by said corporation to the satisfaction of the 
selectmen of said town of Manchester. The President and Di- 
rectors may assess the cost of the construction or maintenance 
of sewers or drains upon the property for the benefit of which the 
same are constructed or which may be in any way 
improved or benefited thereby, and the sum so assessed 
with interest thereon at the rate of six per 
centum per annum from the date when the same become due shall 
be a lien upon such property taking precedent of all other liens 
or incumbrances, except taxes due the State, and the land, build- 
ings or other property upon which liens exist shall be liable to 
be foreclosed in the same manner as if the lien were a mortgage 
thereon in favor of said district to secure the amount of such 
assessments provided no such lien shall continue for a period of 
more than 60 days-after such assessment shall be due by its terms 
or by the by-laws of said corporation unless within said -time the 

president or clerk of said corporation shall lodge with the town 
~elerk of the Town of Manchsester a certificate signed by him 
setting forth the amount of such assessment due said corpora- 
tion and describing the land upon which the lien is claimed. 
Such lien shall be discharged of record when said president or 
clerk shall lodge with the town clerk of said town a certificate that 
the same is paid or satisfied. . 

Sec, 7. Said president and directors may also estimate the 
damages arising to any person not benefited thereby, or whose 
land may be taken or used in any manner in the construction of 
any such sewer or drain, and award to such person the amount of 
such damages, which amount shall be paid to said person before 
the construction of said sewer, or any use of said land, or upon 


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his refusal to receive the same, or in case of his absence from 
said district, such amount shall be paid to the treasurer of the 
Town of Manchester, who is hereby directed to receive the same, 
and hold it subject to the order of the person or persons for 
whose benefit said district shall have made such payment. 

Sec. 8. If any person or persons shall be aggrieved by the 
action of said president and directors in assessing benefits or 
damages as hereinbefore provided, such person may, within 
thirty days after notice of the same, as herein provided, petition 
any judge of the superior court, or the judge of the court of 
common pleas of Hartford county, for a review of such assess- 
ment or estimate of damages, and upon such notice to said cor- 
poration as said judge may prescribe, said judge shall, after 
hearing, appoint three disinterested freeholders of Hartford 
county, not residents of said Town of Manchester, to review such 
assessment or estimate. Such freeholders, so appointed, shall 
give notice to all persons interested to appear and be heard be- 
fore them at such time and place as they may fix, and shall 
make such assessment of benefits or estimate of damages in the 
premises as shall seem to them fair, and make return of the same 
under oath to such judge. Such judge may accept said report 
or may set the same aside and appoint other persons qualified in 
the same manner to perform said duty. If, upon the acceptance 
of any such report it shall appear that the amount of damages 
has been increased or the assessments of benefits decreased in fa- 
vor of the applicant, the costs of said application and review 
shall be paid by said corporation otherwise by the applicant and 
said judge shall have power to issue execution for the amount of 
such cost. The report of such freeholders accepted by said 
judge shall be filed with the clerk of said corporation and 
entered upon its records. 

Sec. 9. All notices by the President and Gureciom shall be 
in writing, signed by at least four of said officers, certified by the 
clerk, and may be served by being deposited in the post-office in 
said district, postage paid, directed to the person interested, at 
his usual post-office address. 

Sec. 10. The President and Directors as a Board of Health 
may examine into and order the abatement of and may abate all 
nuisances which they may deem prejudicial to the health of the 
residents of said districts arising from sinks, cesspools, privies, 
drains, sewers, gutters, ponds, stables, barns, hog-pens, slaughter 
houses, deposits of filth, rubbish and garbage. If any person 
shall fail to obey the order of said president and directors relat- 
ing to such nuisances on premises owned or occupied by such 
person, the same may with the concurrance of the health 


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officer, committee, or Board of Health of said town be abated 
or removed at the expense of the person so neglecting or refusing 
and for such purpose said President or Directors or any agent 
or committee appointed by them shall have the right to enter 
upon the lands of any such person and the buildings thereon 
in said district with such assistance as may be necessary. The 
expense of such abatement or removal may be recovered by said 
corporation in a civil action against such person. 

_ Sec. 11. Said corporation shall have the right to discharge 
its drains and sewers into the Hockanum River, and it may also 
dispose of the sewage and garbage by draining, filtration, crema- 
tion, precipitation or by any or all of said plans, it being author- 
ized to construct, maintain, and repair a complete system of sew- 
erage and drainage throughout said district, provided before said 
sewage is discharged into the said Hockanum River, it shall be 
treated by filtration, cremation, precipitation irrigation, or by 
other approved plans, which will prevent the. polution of the 
water of said River. It may lay, assess and collect taxes for the 
purposes of said corporation upon the same property and in the 
manner provided by law for laying, assessing, and collecting 
school district taxes, and if said corporation at a legal meeting 
called for said purpose shall by vote so direct, it may from time 
to time borrow money and issue its note or notes, bond or bonds, 
or other evidence of indebtedness with interest at not more than 
six per centum payable not more than twenty years from date. 


Sec. 12. Said district is hereby authorized to take and use — 


the water of any stream, lake or pond, except Bigelow Brook, or 
the brook which crosses the highway known as Woodbridge 
Street, a few rods northerly from John A. Alvord’s store within 
the limits of the Town of Manchester and lying north of Middle 
Turnpike in said Manchester and within the towns of Bolton, 
South Windsor and Vernon, to hold, convey and distribute such 
water in, to and through said four towns in said district by means 


of reservoirs, pipes, aqueducts, or other suitable works in such - 


quantities as the necessities and conveniences of said towns and 
said district may require; to take and hold any lands, property 
or privileges not heretofore excepted; and to exercise any powers 
not inconsistent with the laws of this state that may be necessary 
or convenient for carrying into effect the purposes of this act. 
Nothing herein shall be construed so as to give to said district 
. the right to lay any pipes or mains, to take, convey, store, or dis- 
tribute water, or exercise any right in, through, upon, or over the 
territory of The South Manchester Water Company, or any water 
company in the Town of Vernon, now used or occupied by any 
such company, or any part thereof, or to take, use, or divert any 


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stream or water tributary to or supplying any reservoir now used 
or occupied by said The South Manchester Water Company, or 
any water company in the Town of Vernon, without the written 
permission of said The South Manchester Water Company, or of 
such water company in the Town of Vernon. 

Sec. 138. Except as hereinafter provided, said president and 
directors are hereby authorized to enter upon any land or water 
for the purpose of making surveys, and to take conveyances, for 
and in the name of the district, of all lands, property, or privi- 
leges necessary or convenient for accomplishing the purposes of 
this act; to hold and divert in sufficient quantity the water of 
any stream either within or without said district, excepting ponds 
and streams above excepted, by the construction of suitable dams 
across the same; to enter upon any lands near such proposed 
dams and procure earth, stone, or other materials for the con- 
struction and maintenance thereof, and to make suitable waste- 
ways for the surplus water of such streams; to enter upon and 
make use of the ground or soil under any railroad, street, public 
or private way, or public or private ground, and lay, construct, 
and maintain all necessary pipes and aqueducts in such manner 
as least to damage or impede travel thereon; to make contracts 
for labor and material for the general purposes of this Act. To 
make and establish public reservoirs and hydrants; to make rules ~ 
and regulations regarding the use and distribution of said water 
and establish the prices to be paid therefor; to collect all water 
rents and-pay the same to the treasurer of the district; to audit, 
allow and pay orders on said treasurer for the payment of all 
claims against said district on account of said works, including 
payment of interest on notes or bonds issued on account of such 
works, and generally to attend to the construction, care, super- 
vision and management of said water works. 

Sec. 14. Said district shall pay all damages that shall be 
sustained by any person or ‘persons or corporations by the taking 


of any land or estate as aforesaid or by the construction or laying 


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of any reservoirs, pipes, aqueducts or other works for the pur- 
poses of this Act. If said district cannot agree with any owner 
other than the Manchester Water Company upon the amount to 
be paid to such owner, for any land or other property to be taken 
for the purposes of said district, it may bring its petition to the 
Superior Court in the County in which such land or property is 
to be acquired or if such land or property is situated in more - 
than one county to the Superior Court in either County, or if 
said Court is not in session to either judge thereof praying that 
such compensation may be determined which petition shall be 
accompanied by a summons signed by competent authority noti- 


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fying the owner of the land or other property to be taken and all 
persons interested therein to appear before said Court or judge 
and shall be served as a summons in‘ civil actions and upon:said 
petition said Court or judge shall appoint a committee of three 
disinterested persons who after being sworn and having given 
reasonable notice to the parties shall examine the land or other 
property proposed to be taken ascertaining its value and assess 
such sum in favor of the owner as will compensate him therefor 
and shall report their findings and award to said Court or judge 
and their report may be rejected for any irregular or improper 
conduct in the performance of their duties. If the report be 
rejected the Court or judge shall appoint another committee 
which shall proceed in the same manner as the first committee 
was required to proceed, but if it be accepted by said Court or 
judge such acceptance shall have the affect of a judgment in fa- 
vor of the owner of the land or other property against the peti- 
tioner for the amount of the assessment made by the Committee, 
and execution may be issued therefor and such Court or judge 
may make any order necessary for the protection of the rights of 
all persons interested in the land or other property taken, but 
the land or other property sought to be taken shall not be used 
by said district until the amount of said judgment shall be paid 
to the party to whom it is due or deposited for his use with the 
County Treasurer. Said District shall pay the members of the 
Committee a reasonable compensation for their services to be 
taxed by said Court or judge. The provisions of this section 
shall apply to procedure in relation to water matters of said 
district only. | 

Sec. 15. The President and Directors of said District may 
bargain with the Manchester Water Company, a corporation un- 
der the laws of this State located in said Town of Manchester 
for the purchase of its rights, franchises, interests, real and 
personal property, estate and assets of every kind wheresoever 
situated and shall report their doings to a meeting of voters of 
said district as defined in section 3 of this Act. At such meet- 
ing or at any adjournment thereof said district may vote upon 
the question whether it shall purchase said property and assets 
of said The Manchester Water Company under the terms and 
conditions afforded by said president and directors and if said 
question so submitted is determined affirmatively the district 
shall thereupon become possessed of all the rights, franchises, 
interests, contracts, real and personal property, estate and assets 
of every kind and wheresoever situated of said The Manchester 
Water Company upon performance by said district of the terms 


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and conditions of the agreement of purchase to be by it per- 
formed and said The Manchester Water Company shall execute 
all necessary transfers, assignments and conveyances to carry 
such purchase into effect. If said President and Directors are 
unable to agree with said The Manchester Water Company for 
the purchase of its property said President and Directors may 
vote to take all the rights, franchises, interests, contracts, real 
and personal property, estate and assets wheresoever situated of 
said The Manchester Water Company by condemnation pro- 
ceedings, at whatever price and amount may be fixed and ad- 
judged by appraisers appointed under the provisions of this sec- 
tion and the President and Directors may submit their action to 
be voted upon by the legal voters of said district. If the major- 
ity of such voters shall vote in favor of the district taking all 
said property and assets by condemnation proceedings at the 
price and amount to be so fixed and adjudged by said appraisers 
then said president and directors may after at least thirty days’ 
notice to said The Manchester Water Company apply in behalf of 
said District to the Superior Court for Hartford County for the 
appointment of three disinterested men as appraisers and said 
Court shall appoint the same who, after being sworn and giving 
the parties in interest at least thirty days’ notice, shall hear the 
parties and ascertain and adjudge according to law the true and 
just value of all the rights, franchises, contracts, real and person- 
al property, estate, and assets of all kinds wheresoever situated, 
belonging to or appertaining to said the Manchester Water Com- 
pany and shall report their judgment to the Clerk of the Superi- 
or Court for Hartford County for confirmation by said Court 
who shall file and record the same and upon such report being ac- 
cepted by the Court judgment shall be rendered in accordance 
therewith. Upon the filing of said report and its final acceptance 
by the Superior Court in the manner herein provided for the 
amount ascertained and adjudged shall immediately become due 
and payable and upon payment by said District to said The Man- 
chester Water Company of the amount so ascertained, the title to 
all the rights, franchises, interests, contracts, real and personal 
property, estate and assets of every kind wheresoever situated 
except cash of said The Manchester Water Company shall vest 
in and belong to said district and said The Manchester Water 
Company shall make all necessary conveyances, assignments, re- 
leases, and transfers of said property and interest to said district. 
The Superior Court, by its final judgment, shall ascertain and 
determine all things and issue all orders and writs necessary or 
convenient to fully carry out the intent and purpose of this act 
and the award of the appraisers, and may make any order neces- 


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sary for the protection of the rights of any party, including stay 
of execution of any judgment in whole or in part. In the event 
of a submission to the voters of said district, under the pro- 
visons of this act, a list of the qualified voters of said district 
shall be made in the manner provided by law for making lists of 
voters to be used at meetings of electors in said town, and such 
list shall be the voting list to be used in voting upon any ques- 
tion submitted under the provisions of this act. A sufficient 
number of ballots shall be provided. Those in favor of the pur- 
chase of the property of The Manchester Water Company shall 
deposit a bollot in the box provided for such purpose, upon which 
ballot shall be plainly printed “Shall the Eighth School and 
Utilities District purchase the property of The Manchester Water 
Company at the price of (here insert the amount of the agreed 
price)? Yes.” Those opposed to the purchase of the property 
of The Manchester Water Company shall deposit a ballot in such 
box, upon which ballot shall be plainly printed “Shall the Eighth 
School and Utilities District purchase the property of The Man- 
chester Water Company at the price of (here insert the amount 
of the agreed price)? No.” In the event said district shall 
decide as herein provided, to acquire the property of said The 
Manchester Water Company otherwise than by agreement with 
said The Manchester Water Company, those in favor of acquiring 
such property shall deposit a printed ballot as hereinbefore pro- 
vided upon which shall be printed “Shall the Eighth School and 
Utilities District purchase the property of The Manchester Water 
Company at whatever price may be fixed by appraisers? Yes.” 
Those opposed shall deposit a ballot upon which shall be plainly 
printed “Shall the Eighth School and Utilities District purchase 
the property of The Manchester Water Company at whatever 
price may be fixed by appraisers? No.” For the reception of 
said ballots a box marked “Manchester Water Company” shall 
be provided. In case said district shall take over the property of 
said The Manchester Water Company under the provisions of 
this act, the corporate franchises and rights of said company, 
shall continue in said The Manchester Water Company unim- 
paired for all purposes of enforcing the collection of claims and 
demands, either by the Company or against it, and for purposes 
of properly closing up the business and affairs of the Company 
and distributing its assets. 

Sec. 16. The Eighth School and Utilities District shall not 
take by condemnation any property or rights, except those of said 
The Manchester Water Company, until authorized by the superi- 
or court or a judge thereof after application and finding, in the 
manner hereinafter provided, that public convenience and neces- 


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sity require the condemnation of such property or rights. Said 
district intending to condemn any property or rights other 
than those of said The Manchester Water Company shall make 
application to the superior court, or a judge thereof, for a find- 
ing that public convenience and necessity require the condemna- 
tion of such property or rights. Such court or judge shall there- 
upon fix a time and place to hear such application, and shall 
cause notice to be served, at least twelve days before the day 
of hearing, upon any water company or companies and the owner 
of any property or rights that may be affected by the condemna- 
tion of such property or rights. Such court or judge shall hear 
the parties and determine whether public convenience and neces- 
sity require the condemnation of such property or rights in whole 
or in part and the decision of such court or judge shal be final 
and conclusive upon the parties; provided such finding of public 
convenience and necessity shall not be required, after said dis- 
trict has acquired the rights, property and assets of said The Man- 
chester Water Company, as provided in this act. The provisions 
of this section shall apply only to property for water supply pur- 
poses. 

Sec. 17. Nothing herein shall give said district the right 
to take, appropriate and use any property, rights, or privileges 
of any person or corporation until the same shall have been le- 
gally acquired by purchase or condemnation, or otherwise, and 
paid for by said district. 

Sec. 18. Said district is hereby authorized to open the 
grounds in any road, street, or highway, in the Town of Vernon, 
for the purpose of laying and sinking or for repairing such 
pipes or conduits as may be necessary for conducting water from 
any reservoir which said district may construct in the Town of 
Bolton or Vernon to the Town of Manchester; and said district 
may, for the purposes aforesaid, construct any aqueduct or other 
works by it to be made and constructed, from such reservoir situ- 
ated in the Town of Bolton or Vernon under or over any water 
course, street, railroad, highway, or other way; provided said 
district shall put such water course, street, railroad, highway, or 
other way as speedily as possible in as good condition as before 
laying and constructing such aqueducts or other works. The 
same provisions as to repairs to water courses, railroads, high- 
ways, or other ways, shall be obligatory upon said district 
wherever the works of said district shall be located. In case 
said district shall acquire any property or rights of said The 
Manchester Water Company situated in the Town of Vernon, 
either by purchase, condemnation, or in any other way, said 


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district is hereby authorized to hold, use, and maintain such 
property in said Town of Vernon. 

Sec. 19. For the purpose of defraying the cost of construc- 
tion of said waterworks and expenses incident thereto, and in ad- 
dition to other notes, bonds, or evidences of indebtedness, said 
district is hereby authorized to issue notes, bonds, or certificates 
of debt, to be denominated on the face thereof Water Fund of 
the Highth School and Utilities District, to an amount not ex- 
ceeding, in the whole, the sum of one hundred and fifty thou- 
sand dollars, bearing interest at no greater rate than six per cen- 
tum per annum, the principal of which shall be payable at any 
time or times within fifty years after the date of issue. The 
amount of such notes, bonds, or certificates which may at any 
time be issued, with times of payment of the principal and in-' 
terest thereof and the rate of interest, shall be prescribed by said 
district in legal district meeting for that purpose called and held. 
Such notes, bonds, or certificates shall be signed by the presi- 
dent and countersigned by the clerk of said district, who shall 
register the number and amount of each bond or certificate issued 
on the records of said district; and said bonds and certificates 
shall, when issued, be obligatory upon said district and the inhab- 
itants thereof according to the tenor and purport of the same. 

Sec. 20. Said president and directors shall be the trustees 
of the notes, bonds, or certificates of debt issued by said district ; 
shall superintend the issuing of the same; regulate the form 
thereof; and, after the same or any part thereof shall be issued, 
may sell them in such manner as they may deem best, at not 
less than their par value, or may pledge the same for money 
temporarily borrowed by them. Said president and directors 
shall keep a record of all such notes, bonds, or certificates is- 
sued, disposed of, or pledged; and all moneys received by said 
president and directors shall be paid to the treasurer of said 
district. The provisions of this section shall not apply to mat- 
ters pertaining to schools. 

Sec. 21. In case the avails of water rent in any year shal] 
be inadequate to meet the current expenses of said waterworks, 
or any interest on such script, the deficiency shall be supplied by 
the laying of a tax on the ratable estate of all persons liable to 
taxation, which tax shall be estimated by the president and direc- 
tors and recommended to a district meeting specially called for 
laying the same, and said meeting may then lay such tax as 
shall be necessary to meet the aforesaid deficiency; and said 
district at any district meeting specially called and held for that. 
purpose may lay taxes for the purpose of paying the principal 
debt aforesaid, or any part thereof, by the establishment of a 


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sinking fund, or in any other proper manner, and such tax may 
be collected in the same manner as school district taxes. The 
avails of all such taxes shall be paid to the treasurer of the dis- 
trict, subject to the order of said president and directors. 

Sec. 22. The avails of all water rents shall be applied to de- 
fraying the current expenses of said waterworks; and then to 
the payment of the interest on said notes, bonds, or certificates ; 
and if there shall be at any time an excess, the treasurer shall 
report the fact to the president and directors, who may direct 
whether the same be applied to the. extinguishment of the prin- 
cipal debt incurred by the issuing of said notes, bonds, or certi- 
ficates, or to any other purpose in connection with said works. 

Sec. 23. Any claim of said district for the use of water shall 
be a lien upon the real estate or property therein, or in connec- 
tion with which such water was used; and said lien may be fore- 
closed before any court having jurisdiction in the same man- 
ner as mortgages are foreclosed. ‘The president and directors 
shall also have power to issue warrants for the collection of all 
such claims in the form prescribed by law for the collection of 
taxes, which warrants shall be signed by said president and direct- 
ed to some constable or indifferent person named therein who shall 
have the same power to levy and collect the same as collectors of 
town taxes. : 

Sec. 24. The president and directors shall keep a record 
of their official proceedings, and an accurate account of their re- 
ceipts and disbursements, verified by proper vouchers, which 
account shall be open at all proper times to the inspection of any 
taxpayer of the district; and said president and directors shall 
render at each annual district meeting a statement of their re- 
ceipts and disbursements on account of the construction of said 
works, and a separate statement of the receipts from revenue 
of the same, and payments for interest and current expenses 
after the opening of such works for public use, which statement 
shall be sworn to by one or more of said directors and recorded 
in the records of said district. They shall also report to the same 
meeting a statement of their doings, including a general exhibit 
of the state of the works and estimates of sums required to be 
expended therefor, a statement of claims outstanding against 
the district on account of such works, and such other matters of 
information in regard to said works as may be called for. The 
treasurer shall also render to the same meeting, and at any time 
when required by the president and directors, a statement. of 
his accounts. | 7 

Sec. 25. If any person shall wilfully and maliciously con- 
taminate the water in any reservoir, hydrant, aqueduct, pipe, or 


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other portion of said waterworks, or destroy or injure any mate- 
rial or property used or designed to be used in connection there- 
with, such person, on conviction thereof, shall be fined not more 
than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year, 
or both; and said district shall have power to enact by-laws, in 
the manner prescribed by law, imposing penalties and forfeitures 
for violation of any of the rules or regulations of the president 
and directors, provided such penalties or forfeitures shall not 
exceed the sum of twenty dollars for any offense. ed 

Sec. 26. This act shall not take effect until it has been 
accepted by said district at a meeting specially warned for that 
purpose, at which meeting the vote shall be taken by ballots 
marked “Yes” and “No,” and if the majority of the ballots so 
‘cast in. said meeting shall’ bear the word “Yes,” then this act 
shall take effect and be in force. The boxes to receive the bal- 
lots aforesaid shall be kept open at least three hours, and the 
hours of opening and closing the same shall be specified in the 
call for the meeting. If at said meeting this act shall be accept- 
ed, then said district may, at a special meeting called for that 
purpose, vote upon the matter of issuing such notes, bonds, or 
certificates, and elect by ballot a president, directors, and a 
_ treasurer, and transact any other business contemplated in the 
provisions of this act, provided notice thereof shall have been 
inserted in the call for said meeting. The meeting of such 
district provided for in this section shall be held at the school 
hall in the Highth School District, or at such other place in said 
district as the committee of said Eighth School District, the 
president and directors of said The Manchester Sanitary and 
Sewer District, and the president and directors of said The 
Manchester Water District, or any five of them, who are hereby 
authorized to call said meeting, shall designate, at such time 
after the approval of this act as said committee, president, and di- 
rectors, or any five of them, shall fix, notice of said meeting 
being given by the persons designated in this act, or any five of 
them, by posting a written notice of said meeting on the public 
signpost in said town located in said district, and by publication 
of said notice in a newspaper published in said Town of Man- 
chester. 

Sec. 27. At the first meeting of said corporation, or at some 
subsequent meeting, by-laws and regulations for the control and 
management of its affairs and the conduct of its officers and _ 
agents shall be adopted by said corporation, and shall not be 
altered except at an annul meeting of said corporation, or a spe- 
cial meeting called for that purpose. 


70. 
Approved, May 17, 1915. 


(House Bill No. 960) 
(331) 
An Act Reimbursing the Town of Manchester for Damages 
Paid by Said Town by Reason of Defect 
in a State Highway. 


Be it enacted. by the Senate and House of Representatives 
in General Assembly convened : 

The comptroller:is directed to draw his order on the treasurer 
for the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars in favor of the 
treasurer of the Town of Manchester, to reimburse said town for , 
money expended in paying Nellie Campbell for injuries sustain- 
ed by her on the state highway. 

Approved, May 20, 1915. 


INDEX TO COMPILATION. 


wncorporacing: town of Manchester (Fou ad eas oe ces cy eee 1 
Validating List, Town of Manchester ............. Ve Gani! A. Oe Sie 
Annexing part of East Windsor to Manchester .............:..:..4 
Ghanging Name of Society of Orford eon lor ea yes int eee 3 
Creating Probate District of Manchester ..................... oe ah 


Annexing Harlow Fowler et al. to North West School District 
OP AITO OS LGR re al yee On nit sue Siena te eh da Penul feraig ie wie anera ah ote 
Annexing Part of South East School District of East Hartford 
to West Schoo! District of Manchester 
Authorizing Town to Assume Indebtedness incurred in Furnish- 


Rr ten CAs Cor vote aee ates Trolehaeon aid ah erg eas ee wnt as 
Rermitting. Fart; of State: Tax to Towne. or tank, oa eo 4 
Waidating Election of Justices of the; Pedce oo ee iis es snes bie w love 4 
Creating School District in Manchester and East Hartford 6 


Validating Action Exempting The Mather Electric Company from 


OU ice KEE AME PL. othd, sire) a0, olyeod ah. wlad Miah cer avin ar ia ea oe, 'atial Sichole Wate Te we f 
Pcornoracna cen ecnool District, i ee ee ea i Boos wate oe etelan 7 
Pe PUPS Crates Ms VES UKE ic. aye eoals comets o\ajat'y So eth» levee esi wo aaclane a ate 8 

Peaimencing. Stn school District Acts ioe ol iin siege Khaw as wales Wes 9 
PIMmenoine Stn. Scnool DIStrict ACE oon. aed leaicdiac cus bone sieve 9 
eINenainG SreSOnOOMPIStPict Act. ero c onouis catia lesice vO ae ee es 10 
memenging oth scnooreDistrict Act. 5 sivas. Wes sos occ s oie se ace w erels 13 
reduinat OWN GOouUrL or Manchester”, Li..'s scree tae whe ce ome ce ek! 14 
PRTC IC POW TNECOUPRLIA CEs: 5 '4 5 Xi cn'e stn oc ile sale Gut loe: a wala lets. ohn 20 
SEPTIC CEM N Me aie ets e Ee cc! 9 a's Sle oo aiar ele Giana doa ta\e es cantare a tig, A, 22 
Rte TS CHART CAM EUV EAN Raye esc onl sys 4 ce a's. 0 pyle MURUORL mi orglaleenie’ ewe alates any & hale wean e 32 
BEN EVO LCR TELAPIOWW TPs ESERIES 1S ln sp. 20 8 oval ao MMA alle Me hls ba "Gr wiavard os tl cmallaLoiml puataen 38 
RTP CEL CSET NOWRA AR a Sra), 2), ois? ys iece “aah Mimechoe Hlelcicreca ta she Wag aides tnetonee e 47 
PUG MOT Gt OWN AC cals cio is oa nie lg ales Gig vie. Watstiele arevature Nel ete Soatanese aii 51 
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